do you dilute your toddler's juice?

[strangerthanfiction]

Just wondered as I've been giving dd undiluted pure apple juice with her lunch for months now but someone said to me recently that it should be very diluted as their kidneys can't digest it. Is this right or not? If it is have I done damage to dd's kidneys?! .

Well, in my defense I have to say that dd doesn't have any other very sweet foods except for cheerios for breakfast and an occasional ice lolly while the weather's very hot. She doesn't have biscuits, cakes, chocolate, sweetened fizzy drinks or squash. She doesn't even like fruit yoghurts which are usually quite sweetened. And she does only have one little cup of juice after her lunch so I don't think she's doing too badly tooth-wise. Generally she's got a savoury tooth. It's things like crisps I have to watch her with. She also tends to be a bit constipated (probably due to her lack of fruit intake, though she does eat broccoli and baby corn, and other veg cooked in things) so I've never had a problem with it making her tummy runny. I give her the sparkling mineral water as our tap water is dire, even when boiled, she won't touch it. Though I'm sure I could try uncarbonated and she'd be fine with that. It never entered my head until starting this post that carbonated mineral water might be unhealthy. I drink tons of it. .

I kept both of mine on water until they were old enough to know there was an alternative!
But have always had a filter or nice tap water...
I know that some tap water is pure filth...

welshmum...fizzy any-drinks will leech calcium from your bones, so not a good idea (esp for growing childen or during pg/bf).

gloworm, how does a fizzy drink take the calcium out of your bones? I guess I'll stop dd's carbonated mineral water right now then!

dd (2.6) will get either a sparkling water or full sugar sprite on V. special occasions.

Normally she drinks water or milk.

Are these the best 2 options when we're out for a meal and she wants 'bubbles' like mummy

I prefer to ge tthe mineral water but its not always available, so I thought next best was a non diet drink with no colour ? Any other advice ?

7up is a sparking drink that had no additives. Dietician recommended it to me.

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