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Have at least 8 hours you are always with computers, often staying up and fill your belly with “food waste”?

Do you have symptoms of eye fatigue, aching pains or other symptoms? If the answer is yes, then you must make adjustments to the diet. One of the most important thing is immediately filled with nutrition, manage your diet. Among the foods that can strengthen the brain, eyes and maintain strong bones. The third aspect is the most basic.

Strengthen the brain

Fat is essential to strengthen the brain substance. Complexity in developing and sharpening the brain has a very important function. Typical food is fruit crustaceans, sesame, naturally bred animals and so on.

Protein is the basic material in intelligence activities, is an important material in the process of restraint and control of stimulation of brain cells. Typical foods are lean meats, eggs, chicken, fish etc..

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1. Low-fat yogurt. Derivative products are low-fat dairy but rich in vitamin A. It was common knowledge when the vitamin is essential for the skin. Even if you have thyroid problems or diabetes, this is a good reason to store food.

2. Berry. Fruits such as plums, strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries contain many antioxidants. That means it’s a good fruit for the consumption of healthy and beautiful skin.

3. Salmon. Your skin needs fatty acids. When the fish are not included in your menu list, could be replaced with walnuts, vegetable or canola oil. All three have the same result. Omega 3 and Omega 6 is important, but this fatty acid can make the body more healthy.

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There was a mother who experienced a drastic weight increase, but the baby is very thin. There is also a mother whose weight increased less than 10 pounds, but her baby is born with normal weight. The second difference lies in the mother’s nutritional content in food.

When pregnant, what you eat and drink are the main source of nutrition for babies that she carried. In fact, the relationship between what you eat with the quality of infant health is much more powerful than we imagine.

Food consumed by the mother to be that high because the foods contain nutrients that will help grow the baby. If the mother had noticed his nutritional intake when not pregnant, then the intake it should be multiplied again when it was entering a period of pregnancy, because now there are two mouths to feed. When the mother was pregnant with twins, then the more nutrients to be consumed by the mother.

These nutrients will help the growth of baby’s cells, such as:

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Hyperbilirubinemia is an increase in bilirubin levels in infants. When the baby’s body to replace red blood cells and other body tissues with a new one, then the disposal of this process will usually be removed by the liver / liver. Bilirubin is one result of such disposal.
Background The occurrence of hyperbilirubinemia

When your baby is still in the womb (still in the form of a fetus), then the task of removing bilirubin from the blood of fetuses carried by the placenta. Heart / liver of the fetus does not have to waste bilirubin.

When your baby is born, the task is immediately taken over by a liver / her liver. Because his liver is not used to it, then do not be surprised if it turns out it can take weeks for adjustments.
During your baby’s liver to work hard to eliminate bilirubin from the blood, of course, the remaining amount of bilirubin will continue to accumulate in the body. Since bilirubin is yellow, so if there are huge numbers, he can “stain” the skin and other body tissues which is owned by your baby.

When will hyperbilirubinemia Become Dangerous?
For low or medium levels of bilirubin, a result that happens is your baby’s skin color change to yellow. While high levels of bilirubin can be dangerous, because he could get into the baby’s brain cells and cause damage.

To prevent this from happening, it is wise to continue to control the baby’s bilirubin level is affected by hyperbilirubinemia.

What Can You Do?
At the level of accumulation of bilirubin is low, you can simply give more water intake for your baby and give phototherapy (or usually by soaking in the hot sun in the morning).
On the accumulation of bilirubin level was very high, it may take a blood transfusion, to “swap” the baby’s blood containing high bilirubin with the blood of adults with low levels of bilirubin.
Usually this condition hyperbilirubinemia were more common in premature babies, but usually can be overcome only by increasing water intake and phototherapy.

Before you start giving solids (Food Assistance BMS) on your baby, it’s important to know about allergies that may occur in infants to food.

Rule 4 Day Wait Period

This rule is particularly important if you or your family have allergies to certain foods. “Rule 4 Day Wait Period” is an easy way to check for food allergies. How do I? Basically, you should introduce one new food at a time and wait until 4 days before introducing the next new food.

For example, if you want to introduce your baby to an avocado on Monday, then you should you wait until Thursday to introduce the next new food.

With this sepert way, you can know better whether your baby has an allergic reaction to certain foods or not. In addition, if it turns out negative reaction from your baby, this way will be able to distinguish whether it is an allergic reaction or problems in pencernaanya. Usually an allergic reaction will occur in the first 24 hours, while the digestive problems arising from the new food will look after more than 1 day 1 night.

Well, once you introduce some type of food with “Rule 4 Day Wait Period”, you can just try menkombinasikan some food for your baby recipe. Once again, these preventive measures such as good run if you or your family has a “history” of food allergies.

Know also the difference between food allergies with the body’s reaction to food.

8 Foods That Cause 90% of Cases Incidence of Food Allergies

1. Milk

2. Eggs

3. Peanuts

4. Tree nut (walnut, cashew, etc.)

5. Fish

6. Scallop

7. Soybean

8. Wheat

For milk, eggs, soy and wheat, there could be more adult baby, allergic reactions to food will be lost.

Symptoms of Food Allergies

To find out whether your baby has allergies to certain foods, so here are some symptoms that you should be aware:

- Diarrhea that occurs suddenly
- Vomiting which occurred suddenly
- Skin rash issue
- Runny nose
- It’s hard to breathe after eating a new food
- Dizziness
- Face, lips or tongue swells
- Throat feels narrows