FOOD 581 



A proper tubeless feeding buttle, kept scrupulously clean, is 

 essential. 



To make the barley water : take one tablespoonful of pearl barley 

 and wash it. 



Add one pinl of cold water. 



Soak for ten to tw^elve hours and strain. 



Boil slowly for two hours. 



Add water from time to time so as 'o have one pint of the finished 

 product. 



Season with half a teaspoonful of salt and strain through muslin. 



To make oatmeal jelly : — 



This food is useful after the child is nine months old when there 

 is a tendency to constipation. 



Take one cupful of rolled oats, soak in two cupfuls of water for ten 

 to twelve hours, and strain through muslin. 



Add one cupful of cold water. 



Boil for two hours and stir frequently. 



Add half a teaspoonful of salt, when cool a jelly is formed. 



Add two to four teaspoonfuls to each bottle. 



When the child is one year old give one hen's egg daily in milk or 

 boiling water when it jellies. Afterwards thev may be lightly boiled 

 and given with a rusk or toasted bread and butter. 



The child should not have more than five feeds daily. 



After fifteen months old, give two eggs daily, and four feeds in all. 



After eighteen months old, give a light general diet with a little 

 green vegetable. 



After twenty-four months old, feed thrice daily and give water only 

 between meals. 



From age three months the child may have fresh unsweetened fruit 

 juices. 



Sugar is usually given to babies in excess and should be but minute 

 in amount. 



The majoritv of prepared infant foods contain a large carbohydrate 

 content, e.g., powdered biscuit, &c. No child's digestive juices can 

 deal with it adequately until more than one year old. If the child 

 takes too much of it there will be fatness, inactivity, slow dentition, 

 constipation and occasional diarrhoea. Generally such foods should be 

 avoided. Probably the most useful of all are Allenbury's. 



The better nourished the baby the less disturbance may one expect 

 during teething. 



If there is vomiting, absolute anorexia, high fever and sometimes 

 diarrhoea, in all probabilitN- milk poisoning is the cause. 



Examine and jealously guard the milk supply. 



