How do I give juice to my 10 weeks old DD...

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She has chicken pox and my gp told me to give her some juice to keep her hydrated. She's exclusively breastfed so how do I give her juice and what quantities and what frequenty ?? Please need your advice !!

the GP is BARKING

and why would juice hydrate any more than water anyway?

anyhow, just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of disapprovel HOpe DD gets better soon.

approval

Here is a website that advises what hydration drinks to give your infant. I understand that all the moms here think you should only give you infant breast milk but as she is sick, I think you should get a second opinion. Second from those of the moms and your gp.

The reason I say this is that a continous running fever, such as you see in chicken pox can cause dehydration and require extra fluids. It is important to remember that infants are at greater risk of suffering from dehydration. However, early introduction to juices can increase risk of food allergies. I believe that in the UK pedialyte is similiar to dioralyte.
ukhealthcare.uky.edu/content/content.asp?pageid=P00828

I think you should complain about your GP. This is pointless advice at best and dangerous at worst. Your breastmilk is all that is needed, and if a breastfed baby should get dehydrated then I would suggest that need specialist treatment in a hospital or a prescription rehydration product not some homemade bodgejob.

I think you should complain about your GP. This is pointless advice at best and dangerous at worst. Your breastmilk is all that is needed, and if a breastfed baby should get dehydrated then I would suggest that need specialist treatment in a hospital or a prescription rehydration product not some homemade bodgejob.

through our long hot summers - my 2 breastfed dds just upped their feeds and were 'drinking' a lot.

leati- you've linked to an article about dehydration and heatstroke there. and your advice re. drinking more fluids so baby gets more fluid isn't right. lots of people think this is how it works but it isn't. these are the sorts of things that do down bfing, make it seem inadequate or complicated. all this mum needs to do is keep bfing, her milk is the prefect food and drink for her baby. if it's very hot, her milk will adapt and become more like a drink to better hydrate the baby. the mum doesn't need to do anything or drink more or eat anything different. it's not like formula which is the same consistency all the time.

just wanted to clear that up.

But Leati - unless I'm missing something here, bonnebaguette's baby is not dehydrated, and as long as she keeps feeding then she won't become dehydrated. She does not need any kind of rehydration product; the GP was talking about keeping her hydrated, no rehydrating her. "All the mums here think that breastmilk is enough" because, at the moment, it is enough.

How's the pox today, bonnebaguette?

Bonnebaguette - have a look through the Breast/Formula feeding threads. There is a poster who is in the process of complining about being told to give Ribena to her lo. I have also had this advice when DD was 12 weeks. I ignored it and carried on with the BF. Unless they are throwing up ALL the milk they will get all the fluids and notrients they need.
Obviously there may be some severe cases of dehydration that need special rehydration powders etc but if it is just a case of keeping her hydrated BM is the best thing.

It would appear some GPs are very out of date/uneducated in BFing. (or babies in general????)

sounds as if gp did not realise how young child was or did not listen when being told that was being breast fed. she should complain about the advice

If your baby was dehydrated enough to need fluid on top of well established breastfeeding, then he/she should have been in hosp.
Sounds like a bit of very dodgy advise to me ,but must admit haven`t read the whole thread.
well done you for questioning it anyways .

Leati, didn't you say somewhere else that you hadn't seen a child with CP in something like 9 years? I really don't think you know much about it. Running a high fever is unusual except in adults with CP, although obv. a very young CP-affected baby with high fever is an important risk to watch out for.

DD had CP at 16 weeks. I just breastfed her (nothing extra), she barely seemed to notice and certainly didn't run a fever or have dry nappies.