How to properly prepare Nutrilon formula for a newborn

Undoubtedly, the best nutrition for a newborn until the first year is mother's milk, but there are cases when the mother is not able to breastfeed her baby, then specialized baby food comes to the rescue. Globally, only 30 percent of children under six months of age are breastfed.

In the modern world there are a lot of companies that produce children's adapted dry formulas, but many parents have already given their preference to the “Nutrilon hypoallergenic” nutrition.

Let's list the components that make up the hypoallergenic Nutrilon mixture to understand what its features and advantages are.

Probiotics

Firstly, probiotics have been added to the structure of the mixture

, which are as close as possible to mother’s milk, and it is precisely because of these additives that the baby receives all the most beneficial things for his body.

At a young age, children very often suffer from dysbacteriosis or allergic diseases, so doctors warn that timely prevention can prevent such pathologies in the baby, namely, the presence of probiotics in his diet guarantees the preservation of the balance of the digestive microflora.

They have a beneficial effect on the activity of the child’s gastrointestinal tract, preventing the development of dysbacteriosis. Due to the breakdown, proteins and fats are partially hydrolyzed, which facilitates their easy digestion and absorption.

In addition, the mixture contains a number of
polyunsaturated fatty acids
, which have a beneficial effect on the baby’s brain and visual organs and take part in the formation of central nervous system tissues and the development of psychomotor functions in children.

hypoallergenic mixture Nutrilon reviews

The long-awaited daughter Dasha was born in the midst of military events, after 10 years of unsuccessful attempts by my husband and me to become parents. Pregnancy occurred after thirty years, with a clearly accepted program of infertility and childlessness. And then, lo and behold! — on one of my business trips I discovered a decrease in my performance, a complete aversion to alcohol and cigarettes and timid hopes for “two stripes.” I had to bear and give birth, roughly speaking, in the zone of military operations. In order to take the child out of this nightmare, I chose to take on 5-6 jobs; my husband and I were estranged at that time. As a result, the whole family had to leave - me, my husband, and my child. But that will come later. The entire pregnancy proceeded under the auspices of constant stress. Master's degree. Scandals at home. Business trips (read: escape) 2-3 times a month. Moving. Political infighting. It was a job that wasn’t too much to shake, but in the current situation it took more nerves than other people’s usual jobs. Three hospitalizations. “Contractions” from the 4th month. Several viral diseases in the first and second trimesters. FPN.

My daughter was born at 35 weeks. It is now customary to call such children not as before - “premature”, but “prematurely born”. Compared to other babies who came into the world at our time, my daughter’s condition was t-t-t-... Among the problems - only mild PED as a result of intrauterine hypoxia. As a result - weakening of reflexes (up to the subsequent disappearance of swallowing and sucking reflexes), clubbed legs, stork bites/fairy kisses (hematomas) on the body, hemangiomas, lingering jaundice, loss of 15 percent of weight in the first week, constant fights, severe reaction to ALL medications used in the perinatal center and during further treatment in the next 2-3 months. Although it’s a shame to say: none of the doctors stuffed my daughter with anything unnecessary, everything was done strictly according to the protocol and the treatment was canceled at the first sign of a reaction to the drug. The debut of blood pressure occurred in July, at the 4th month of life. Previous rashes do not count, because they were more likely a reaction to natural hormonal changes, changes in diet, medications, etc. And what was discovered in July was the beginning of Hell. At first it seemed to me that the red rash under the knees was nothing more than prickly heat (in our city at that time the heat was over 40 in the shade). And roundish spots along the nerves could be a manifestation of lichen. Fortunately, one day I noticed the hair of a stray cat in the inner upholstery of our perfectly white, clean “hypoallergenic” stroller. Oh, it would be better if it were lichen... The brief development of events is this: for 4 months. We are diagnosed with AD based on clinical signs (+ heredity in 3 generations). Due to the aggravation of the military situation for 5 months. In Dashenka’s life, we urgently leave for a safe city, because... I'm tired of looking at the corpses and the military stationed behind our fence. Along the way, the milk disappears, but otherwise, I provide my daughter with decent nutrition, treatment, and a hypoallergenic lifestyle. Against the background of a decrease in lactation, it is necessary to introduce the first complementary foods, not counting the previous supply of mixtures that were given from the maternity hospital. Now we have tried: zucchini puree without additives, apple and pear puree, hypoallergenic porridge. As before, we continued to feed with formulas prescribed by doctors, but just a little at a time. The daughter herself began to spit from the mixtures and does not eat anything. 30 grams and that’s it. And then once a day. The prescribed mixtures were made with regular milk (Nutrilon, Humana, hypoallergenic low-lactose); I think that even then we had an intolerance to the components of goat and cow’s milk, but for some reason the doctors stubbornly did not want to hear my concerns. Later, I will voluntarily take the risk of trying the soy mixture - there were no allergic reactions to it. So, along with breastfeeding, they were fed with these mixtures. And only grams of the first courses of complementary feeding were consumed. At that time, we rented a clean suite in a hotel outside the city, took many hours of walks, and breathed clean air near a fresh reservoir. A month later, living conditions worsened. They began to live in dubious homeless communities, cities and villages replaced one another. My husband couldn’t get a job; within our geographic reach, the only healthcare available to us was free; there were simply no paid clinics. As a result, after each visit, my child and I ended up in the infectious diseases department, where instead of dealing with gastrointestinal manifestations and allergies and blood pressure itself, we were invariably prescribed interferons, antibiotics and lactobacilli. I must say that for all this happiness, we have had multiple drug allergies since birth. In response to all my protests in provincial hospitals that these drugs would only make the child worse, they offered me to buy and drip Zodac/Zyrtec antihistamines. Now we are allergic to them too))) As well as to most components of other antiallergic drugs. I myself always strictly follow doctors’ recommendations, but here, apparently, I had to turn on my brain and insist on my own, guided by my parent’s instincts. When the child is 6 months old. we found a more or less prosperous temporary home. The downsides were that it had all sorts of dust collectors and a consistently high temperature (outside the window it was +25, and in the room the central heating radiators were extremely hot). The owners did not allow us to change the carpets and upholstered furniture; the child and I began to suffocate in the literal sense of the word. In addition to the skin manifestations (there were already 3-4 types of rash with different intensities in different locations), respiratory symptoms were also added. The only things that protected me from the worst cases of blood pressure were long walks (I spent days on end wandering the streets of the village with a stroller and my daughter), frequent ventilation, attempts to restore blood pressure, and the complete exclusion of cosmetics and household chemicals from family life. During one of the exacerbations (my daughter was about 9 months old), I had to eat only buckwheat. Later I added color. cabbage and rice in your diet. This helped a little and after 2-3 months the abundance of the rash and its diversity subsided. The child began to breathe better. By that time, I also gained an understanding that ambulance calls and visits to the local doctor lead us purely to the infectious diseases department, but have nothing to do with solving our problem. By May (i.e. the child was one year old), the skin manifestations had almost completely disappeared. During the holidays, my daughter had a high fever and, playing it safe, the doctor called sent us back to the infectious disease ward. Now I know that these were the first days of my second pregnancy. Perhaps breastfeeding somehow passed on my condition to my daughter. However, we ended up in the hospital for the 5th time, having received our dose of interferons, Zyrtec, lactobacilli, enzyme preparations and antibiotics. I immediately began to hide the antiviral and AB in my pocket, only imitating giving the drug to a child. But all the other drugs did their job. By morning the temperature had gone down, so as not to rise again... All that was left was a slight redness in the throat and a continuous rash all over the body. Since the doctors turned a deaf ear to my requests to pay attention to the allergic reaction, a few days later I directly asked what else I could do. They also answered me directly: write a refusal, take the re and go home. It must be said that in each case of hospitalization, we were ALWAYS discharged only at the insistence of the attending physicians, but every time I wrote such a parental refusal - they say that we are familiar with the conditions and consequences of early discharge, I take the consequences upon myself, etc. Without handwriting such a piece of paper, things for discharge and documents WILL NOT BE ISSUED. Well, I wrote the usual piece of paper and went to my clinic. There the child was treated and on the second day the rash disappeared almost completely. ========= Yes, what else can I mention about the period of visiting “free” hospitals. All attempts to break through to specialized specialists failed. One day I was lucky enough to get through to a dermatologist, who prescribed hormonal ointment without comment. Our local police officers did the same thing. One day I managed to get a referral to a regional allergist. But, alas, there were no coupons in the electronic system or in the registry and there still aren’t. Those. We have a referral to this particular hospital, but we cannot get to a specialist. As a result, at 1 year and 8 months, before my second birth, an amazing thought came to mind: again turn to the services of paid clinics (I have been practicing this for more than 15 years, solving issues regarding my health). I studied all the doctors in the region in this profile, dug through all the reviews (including negative ones), found my doctor and the clinic where this doctor sees. The consultation clarified a lot. Now we are doing additional examination to properly confirm the previous diagnoses of doctors from my homeland. So far we have “Unconfirmed blood pressure” and “drug allergy to such and such.” We also look for food allergens and pathogens in the home. Because from my observations, a picture of multiple allergies emerges. I am deeply grateful to our current doctor for his sensitivity, tact in prescribing (I’m very strapped for money right now), and for examining me only on the merits. The list of necessary tests was selected taking into account my capabilities, so that I could spend less money. and restore the picture as complete as possible. I think this is just the beginning of the journey. Since, in addition to the usual types of pathogens, there are also quite exotic ones, for example, on sweat components or Staphylococcus aureus... In general, I have long noticed that interesting rashes appear in the form of fingerprints. This is how they grabbed the daughter’s leg or under the shoulder blades while changing clothes, such traces remain. At first I was guilty of using household chemicals (it was completely removed), then allergic reactions to tar soap were discovered (the child was not washed with it, I just held pieces of soap in my hands several times). Now I don’t know where such finger-shaped rashes remain on the child’s back. the rest of the rashes also have the same appearance. sometimes - thin scars on the cheeks (with barely noticeable redness, or colorless). on the back and less often the chest generally, and also just above the navel locally (an area of ​​2-4 cm approximately) - a rash in the form of millet or sandpaper, sometimes just peeling. On the buttocks and back of the thighs there is a rash like herpes type 6. Previously - round spots as if from a fungal disease or lichen, more or less colorless or pink, red. The feces on most foods (especially milk and fermented milk, fruit juice and other juices) become terribly smelly. but for weeks and months it seems like nothing. Interestingly. all summer and until October there were no skin manifestations, neither during breastfeeding, nor during mixed feedings, nor while eating any, even “junk” food. communicating with cats, eating poopy sand in the sandbox (three times) did not bring any harm. I became so insolent that I even began to compensate for the child’s calcium deficiency with cottage cheese (20-100 grams per day), occasionally with milk porridge and even calcium gluconate. due to neuropathological problems and behavioral manifestations, she even once gave valerian. Nothing. My husband introduced me to dark chocolate. nothing again. and in October, against the backdrop of rice, buckwheat and wild pear compotes, allergies began to spread again. the type of rashes and their location on the body are strictly the same. The impetus was apparently a 3rd generation preventive allergy syrup (with yellow dye) and a drug prescribed by a neurologist (to relieve possible itching during sleep). Of course, the drugs had to be discontinued without permission. A visit to paid doctors subsequently confirmed my suspicions. What food irritates us now is at a loss. Since in the summer we ate everything, including tangerines and tomatoes. And now it seems like I’m just porridge in the water. Occasionally - dry bread. Well, there is also sugar in dried fruit compotes or weak black tea. Still no cosmetics. The apartment was changed to a more prestigious one, with leather furniture, tiles on the floor and no dust collectors, autonomous heating. I don’t know... I blame the mold... It wasn’t in my own apartment at home, but it accompanies us everywhere on the road: black, pink, gray. Among other studies, we are looking for immunoglobulins for different types of mold. Let's see what I have time to do before giving birth... In general, the baby does not itch and is less capricious. I keep her on a strict regime, many hours of walks, sleep, monastic food, the room temperature is not higher than 18-21 degrees. I try to maintain a quiet regime with my husband. The house is quiet, there are no scandals, a visible atmosphere of peace and well-being. I remembered medical science and pharmacology, physiology and other disciplines from my last two institutes. I read all the honey. literature in a row. I mentally search for solutions. I turn to the Almighty. I teach my daughter the same thing. She is developing well, even better in some ways than her peers (in terms of physical and mental development): she helps me around the house, loves to sculpt and draw, entertains herself with games, is great at tinkering with construction sets, dolls, and various materials, appreciates books, a lot walks, does all sorts of somersaults. I don't know what will happen next. Among the problems - we stopped using the potty, we despise cups, we fell in love with bottles with pacifiers: from birth the baby was on the chest and spitting from the pacifiers, the mixture was always given from an ordinary spoon, a soft Medela spoon, a cup or sippy cups like Haberman, but now my daughter felt the urge to make up for lost time . I still don’t know how to teach me to drink only clean water. To give him something to drink, you have to give compote without sugar (or with, but barely sweet) and highly diluted juices without sugar (about 5% concentration). He drinks a lot. Before going to bed, drinks 3 bottles of 120-150 ml. We can't get vaccinated. Now they don’t take me to a regular kindergarten. Medicines are also not allowed yet. Well, so be it... The second pregnancy was subjectively more difficult. Because of my daughter's nervousness. Due to the unsettled life. Because of who knows where, I developed acute gastritis and pancreatitis. But, surprisingly, the boy is developing better than children, as all studies so far show. He somehow sits calmer in his stomach. And, importantly, he has already reached his height, weight and number of weeks longer than his sister. I'm waiting for it for Christmas, for my name day, or for my dad's birthday. Let's see what happens to my son's health...

Prebiotics

Prebiotics

– another component in the nutritional composition Nutrilon.

Natural dietary fiber that has a positive effect not only on the digestive microflora, but also on the child’s immunity.

Prebiotics are enriched food for living lacto- and bifidocultures, which are unique in their properties; they help bacteria that are beneficial to the body to reproduce properly.

The complex of prebiotics that are part of the Nutrilon mixture is a unique combination of fructooligosaccharides
and galactooligosaccharides
, whose effectiveness has been confirmed in clinical studies. In addition, they facilitate easier digestion and absorption of calcium, phosphorus and iron, which take part in the formation of the nervous system, and contribute to the comfortable and proper development of a small organism.

Advantages of "Nutrilak Hypoallergenic"

The advantages of the mixture lie in its composition.

The basis of nutrition is partially hydrolyzed protein . Allergenicity is reduced by 100,000 times.

There is also natural milk fat, which is necessary to improve metabolism and is important for the proper development of the baby’s brain. It is easily digestible and is the main source of energy for a growing baby.

Probiotic . This mixture contains lactobacilli L.rhamnosus, which has long been recognized by world pediatrics as the safest probiotic for fragile children's bodies. In addition, these lactobacilli are effective in the treatment of atopic dermatitis and eczema.

Prebiotic . These are bifidobacteria B. Lactis BB-12, they support the proper functioning of the immune system and contribute to the formation of their own intestinal microflora.

Fatty acid . This is Omega-3 in this baby food. Acid is important for brain function and the development of 100% vision in a small person.

Lutein . A special pigment, important for the development of vision, has a beneficial effect on the retina.

Nucleotides . In the first few months of a child’s life, it is nucleotides that form the correct functioning of the body’s immunity. They also play a role in the functioning of the digestive tract.

Taurine

This amino acid guarantees stable development of the muscular and central muscular system.

It is present in small quantities in the body of babies, so it is important to compensate for its deficiency with food.

Taurine in baby food is even more important for those children who are bottle-fed.

In Nutrilon baby food, taurine is present in the very proportion that is necessary for a newborn baby.

The benefits of taurine for a child.

Nutrilon mixtures for children, instructions for use, how to dilute, how to give, reviews

The top five in the domestic and foreign markets includes the Nutrilon mixture, which in its composition is most similar to breast milk.

Properly selected baby food is the key to the proper development and good health of the baby, so you should choose only high-quality products, taking into account the age of the little one.

Mothers are often lost in front of the variety of baby food and do not always purchase formula suitable for a newborn for artificial feeding or complementary feeding.

After all, for children from 0 to 3 months, as it turned out, the range of quality products offered is small.

Nutrilon product range

Nutricia Corporation, which is the manufacturer of Nutrilon, offers baby food for different age categories. This:

• Product for newborns Premium 1;
• Antireflux for babies who are prone to frequent regurgitation;
• The hypoallergenic mixture is suitable for newborns and infants up to one year who show signs of an allergic reaction;
• The lactose-free product is intended for infants suffering from lactose intolerance, as well as for babies who have loose stools;
• Premature babies will quickly catch up with their peers with the help of Nutrilon pre;
• A fermented milk product containing bacteria useful for the formation of gastric microflora and digestion can be given to infants from the first days of life;
• For babies who cannot digest cow protein and gluten, Nutrilon soy has been developed;
• The Pepti Gastro product is intended for infants who have impaired intestinal absorption;
• Comfort formula is suitable for babies with frequent bloating, vomiting and other digestive problems;
• Artificial milk with amino acids is intended for dietary nutrition of toddlers;
• The Pepti Allergy product is rich in prebiotics and is suitable for children with dysbacteriosis.

Please note that formulas for newborns from the Nutricia company have a digital index that indicates the weight category of the infants.

You should not independently introduce artificial milk into the baby’s diet - both the formula for feeding and complementary foods should be selected by a pediatrician, who will also observe how the baby tolerates and assimilates the product.

Composition of baby food

Each of the Nutricia products has its own content, differing from the others in several components. Nutrilon for newborns has:

• whey;
• fish fat;
• vegetable oil;
• lactose;
• a complex of minerals and vitamins necessary for newborns.

The composition of the mixture with a special focus for premature babies, allergy sufferers and babies with digestive problems is rich in substances that help the product to be absorbed faster without causing additional problems for the child.

Preparing baby formula

There are many cases when a child begins to spit up or be capricious due to the fact that artificial milk was improperly diluted. The creators of Nutrilon mixtures have placed detailed instructions on the packaging according to which food should be prepared. The sequence is as follows:

1. Thorough hand washing.
2. Sterilization of pacifiers with a bottle.
3. Boil water for 10 minutes, which then needs to be cooled to 40 degrees.
4. Fill the bottle with water according to the dosage from the instructions.
5. Add the mixture using a measuring spoon. The quantity is indicated in the table in the instructions.
6. Shake the bottle until the powder is completely dissolved after closing the container with a lid.
7. Changing the bottle to a pacifier.
8. Checking the temperature of the mixture, during which you need to drop the prepared food onto the back of the hand. If it is hot, you should cool it down a little by immersing the bottle in cool water for a few minutes.

The ratio of the volume of powder and liquid is given in the table:

The finished mixture should be homogeneous without lumps. You cannot leave it for subsequent feedings; you can feed the baby only with freshly prepared food.

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