What water should babies eat and drink?
If you have or want to have a baby, you should think about water.
Nowadays almost everyone agrees that breastfeeding is best when mother and child are healthy. Click We all need water.
Baby milk and water selection | Karl Heinz Asenbaum
A baby in the form of milk that contains 90% water. The rest are carbohydrates, fats, proteins and minerals. The consistency of breast milk is not always the same. It is determined by the mother's health and nutrition.
There is no DIN standard for this. However, many manufacturers of breast milk substitutes have more than a hundred years of research experience into what a good composition of baby milk should look like.
You know: the milk does it – click. I say: but so does the water! No matter whether the mother drinks it herself or uses it to prepare baby milk. Click. The best values are obtained with a water ionizer, which first filters the tap water and can then use diaphragm electrolysis to produce pH values of around pH 10 for the mixing water at the push of a button. This means that the breast milk substitute comes closest to the natural model.
I think long-life milk is a thing of the past. One day everyone will only drink H2 milk. Because a water ionizer is like a cow in the refrigerator. Thanks for your attention. Click. You can find out more about modern water treatment in my publications www.euromultimedia.de
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If you have or want to have a baby, you should think about water.
Nowadays almost everyone agrees that breastfeeding is best when mother and child are healthy. Click We all need water. A baby in the form of milk that contains 90% water. The rest are carbohydrates, fats, proteins and minerals.
The consistency of breast milk is not always the same. It is determined by the mother's health and nutrition. There is no DIN standard for this. However, many manufacturers of breast milk substitutes have more than a hundred years of research experience into what a good composition of baby milk should look like.
Because the solution in the bottle is not only sometimes medically popular, but also very popular. Some powders are even healthier in individual cases. The material of the bottle and teat also plays a role. Glass and stainless steel are definitely preferable to plastic bottles. Click. But the most important thing is the content.
Baby milk powder is usually made from cow's milk powder, i.e. milk from which 90% of its volume, namely the water, has been removed. The powder obtained is then enriched with minerals, vitamins, proteins and fats so that it corresponds as closely as possible to the composition of healthy breast milk. Click
If we take a closer look at natural cow's milk, which we know every day, we can measure two values that are only found in liquids: the acidity, expressed in pH value. Click. And the ORP value, the oxidation-reduction potential. I have specified a pH of 7,4 and an ORP value of minus 56 millivolts as ideal values. These values correspond to the best measured values from fresh human breast milk samples. As you can see from the examples, high-quality organic milk products from cows come closer to these ideal values than UHT milk. Even heavily skimmed organic milk is better than long-life milk. Skimmed UHT milk that has been open for 5 hours performs worst. The difference may seem small to the layperson, but 0,5 pH less corresponds to a 5-fold increase in acidic ions and 18 millivolts less ORP means a doubling of the milk's electron supply, which can be seen as an advantage in terms of food chemistry.
Here you can see some measurement examples of fresh human breast milk, or women's milk as it is called in science. So, as reported in the literature, there is a certain range of fluctuations. However, the pH value of healthy breast milk is always above pH 7, i.e. slightly alkaline, click and the ORP value is always negative area, i.e. antioxidant.
A few years ago I began to examine the electrochemical measured values pH and ORP in commercially available baby milk powders by mixing them according to the instructions with the only baby water available at the time, the Humana brand, and documenting the result. The Humana baby water used had a pH value of 6,61 and an ORP of + 325 mV, so it was slightly acidic and highly oxidative. Click. At the top of the yellow sticky notes you can see the pH value, with the ORP value in millivolts underneath with the plus sign. I have sorted the boxes from left to right for you according to the decreasing ORP value. The range went from +66 mV on the left to +30 mV on the far right. So for the replacement milk, 86 to 122 mV was missing from the best value that I measured with breast milk, and 32 to 68 mV from the worst reading. This showed a very clear deficit of the mixed baby milk powder compared to natural breast milk. None of the mixed milks had an alkaline pH value. The result was 0,76 to 1,42 pH below the ideal value of 7,4.
A premixed breast milk substitute used in maternity hospitals also did not show electrochemical values close to natural breast milk. It was even further away than the home-mixed products. I therefore tried to improve the values by using other types of water.
Even using the well-known mineral water VOLVIC led to a slightly better result than the special baby water previously used.
From the extensive collection of still waters in my water bar, I selected the most sour one. Click: It was the Adelholzener extra still with a pH value of 5,32. It lowered the pH of the milk powder mixture to 5,83. The taste of the mixture was simply disgusting. To save the company's honor, it should be said There is also a more basic variety with a pH of 6,87. This is called Adelholzener natural and would certainly be more suitable for mixing baby milk powder.
The relatively best result of all tested still mineral waters that are more widely distributed. was supplied by the St. Leonhard spring. Click. After all, the pH value was 0,26 pH higher than with the baby water. The ORP value improved by 13 mV. Nevertheless, both values remained far below the ideal value. The resulting milk was still light acidic and oxidative, in contrast to slightly alkaline and antioxidant breast milk.
Using a simple water electrolysis device from Korea, we now want to try to solve the problem of the ORP being too high in our water. Click. This device is filled with water and a direct current from a built-in battery is passed through it for 3 minutes so that oxygen and hydrogen are dissolved in it. The electrical energy Hydrogen is stored in the battery, so that the ORP value of the water decreases, which means an increase in the number of electrons present.
The tap water from Munich filled into the electrolyzer had a dissolved hydrogen content of 0 ppm. Click. After 6 minutes of electrolysis, the content rises to 500 ppm, which corresponds to about a third of the maximum solvency of hydrogen. At the same time, the pH value increased slightly by 0,47 pH. Click. The ORP decreased by 258 mV to -44 millivolts, which corresponds to a large increase in electron content. So this water is antioxidant and reducing. Click.
This water was then mixed with Bebevita baby milk powder according to the instructions. The result was closest to the ideal value of 7,4 in the pH range of all previously tested milk powders and water. The ORP value was also only 12 millivolts below the ideal value of -56 mV. Incidentally, both ideal values correspond to the values of arterial blood. It is assumed that breast milk has such values so that the nutrients and water in it can be absorbed particularly easily by the baby's organism. Click At least 2 ppm of the dissolved hydrogen DH348 remained. Only a few measurements are known about the hydrogen content because it is very difficult to measure in living organisms. However, hydrogen is the central transmitter of energy in the human body. Any excess diffuses through the skin or is excreted through the lungs with the air we breathe. A lack of hydrogen, on the other hand, leads to oxidation processes caused by free radicals taking over.
The same tap water was now treated at level 3 by a diaphragm electrolyzer (water ionizer). These devices drain the oxygen-containing and anode water and deliver pure hydrogen-rich and alkaline cathode water, the so-called alkaline active water. This means that higher pH values can also be achieved and a lower ORP. Click In this case, I set the device so that it delivered alkaline activated water with a pH of 9,88 and an ORP of -190 mV at the push of a button. By mixing the two components, a baby milk with pH was created: 7,41. It corresponded to the pH of arterial blood and the ideal value of breast milk click.
At the same time, the ORP fell by 258 millivolts to – 93 mV. The blood has such a value, for example, after an infusion of vitamin C. Normally it is between -50 and minus 60 millivolts. In breast milk samples we only found values up to -57 mV. However, a lower value should in no way be seen as a disadvantage, as the additional electrons behind it can have a supportive effect when the drink is absorbed into the circulation.
Click The hydrogen content, which was 0 ppm in the starting water, was increased to 802 ppm through electrolysis. 451 ppm remained in the final product. This must also be seen as an advantage over the small electrolysis device without gas separation, which delivered around 100 ppm less hydrogen, although it is officially sold for the hydrogen enrichment of water, for the production of so-called hydrogen rich water, which is currently experiencing a major boom in Japan America has.
Now someone might come up with the idea of enriching not the mixed water for baby milk powder, but mixed or fresh milk itself with hydrogen and electrons.
Since milk contains a lot of water, it naturally produces interesting results, regardless of whether you do it with a simple electrolysis device - click - or a water ionizer with a diaphragm.
I advise against this for 2 reasons: Click. These devices are designed exclusively for the electrolysis of water. Filling with other liquids can lead to massive technical and hygienic problems. The second reason is even more important: it is not known what happens to the non-aqueous components of milk during electrolysis. This area should be left to researchers for now.
Now someone might come up with the idea of enriching not the mixed water for baby milk powder, but mixed or fresh milk itself with hydrogen and electrons.
Since milk contains a lot of water, it naturally produces interesting results, regardless of whether you do it with a simple electrolysis device - click - or a water ionizer with a diaphragm.
I advise against this for 2 reasons: Click. These devices are designed exclusively for the electrolysis of water. Filling with other liquids can lead to massive technical and hygienic problems. The second reason is even more important: it is not known what happens to the non-aqueous components of milk during electrolysis. This area should be left to researchers for now.
Can you not only improve the milk substitute with alkaline activated water, but also the breast milk itself if the breastfeeding mother drinks alkaline activated water? Click. My measurement results show a clear trend in this direction. Click. The negative ORP more than doubled in one trial within 15 days. Click. The pH value, however, remained the same.
You know: the milk does it – click. I say: but so does the water! No matter whether the mother drinks it herself or uses it to prepare baby milk. Click. The best values are obtained with a water ionizer, which first filters the tap water and can then use diaphragm electrolysis to produce pH values of around pH 10 for the mixing water at the push of a button. This means that the breast milk substitute comes closest to the natural model.
I think long-life milk is a thing of the past. One day everyone will only drink H2 milk. Because a water ionizer is like a cow in the refrigerator. Thanks for your attention. Click. You can find out more about modern water treatment in my publications at www.wasserfakten.com
