Unit 4 Health And Social Care Level 3

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Underline the important information When a baby is born it has virtually no bacteria living in its gut, the gut is sterile. It can take several months for a baby to develop healthy bacteria in its gut. This bacteria is very important as it helps with the digestion and elimination of the food. Until this bacteria has developed a baby can not have solid food and must have milk instead. An adult has up to 10,000 taste buds these are all on the tongue, and are sensitive to salt, sweetness, bitter and sour. A baby is born with several million taste buds; these are all over the baby’s mouth including the gums and the hard and soft palates. They gradually begin to disappear and by the time a baby is a year old it has the same number…show more content…
Mother’s milk contains all the right nutrients a baby needs. It is at the right temperature and sterile. It also contains antibodies to boost the baby’s immune system. Some mothers can’t feed their baby breast milk. This can be due to cultural reasons and medical reasons. If a mother is on medication or takes drugs, or alcohol these can be passed on to the baby through the milk. These babies are given specially adapted cows milk, called formula milk. It has to be adapted because cow’s milk is designed for calfs, calfs are much bigger animals than human babies and require more protein in their diet and some salt. Cows milk is much higher in protein and salt than human milk. Babies kidneys can not cope with the level of protein or salt present in cows milk and so it has to be modified. Cows milk does not contain all the nutriments and vitamins a baby needs so these have to be added also. It has to have other additives included to prevent it from going off and to increase its shelf life. Can you reproduce this information as a spider diagram it will show your understanding of what you have read? It might help if you highlight the important bits of

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