Can babies drink rice wine? At what age can babies drink rice wine?

Rice wine has a low alcohol content and contains the nutrients of rice. It is the most nourishing wine. Moreover, rice wine tastes sweet and comfortable, and many children like to drink it very much. Rice wine is so good, so can babies drink rice wine? At what age can babies drink rice wine?

Can babies drink rice wine?

It is best not to drink rice wine for babies

Although some rice wine is very sweet, it is also produced through fermentation, and it contains a lot of alcohol. If babies drink rice wine when they are still young, the alcohol can easily affect their normal physical development.

Moreover, drinking too much can easily affect the baby's brain and intellectual development.

At the same time, a small amount of alcohol can also harm the baby's gastrointestinal mucosa, because the gastrointestinal mucosa of babies of this age is not yet fully developed, and the digestive enzymes in the gastrointestinal tract are relatively simple and cannot digest rice wine well, so don't do this.

Two-year-old baby drinks rice wine and his intelligence declines

Xiaosi, who is over two years old, used to be a smart and lively child. He could decipher the password of his mobile phone and change channels with the remote control. Now he doesn’t know whether it is cold or warm, or whether he is hungry or full, and even admits his mother’s mistakes.

In February this year, Xiao Si drank more than a pound of rice wine under the coaxing of his second uncle and then fell into a coma, vomited, had convulsions and other symptoms, and was rushed to the hospital. In the following months, Xiao Si was taken to four hospitals by his family for treatment. The diagnosis was that Xiao Si had brain damage and epilepsy due to alcohol poisoning. At present, his intelligence, motor and language development are delayed, equivalent to the development level of a one-year-old child.

Alcohol poisoning can be classified into mild, moderate and severe. Mild alcohol poisoning generally manifests as flushed face, excessive talk and abnormal excitement; moderate alcohol poisoning will cause drowsiness and lethargy; severe alcohol poisoning will cause coma and even brain damage.

Doctors say that drinking alcohol may not necessarily lead to poisoning in children, but the harm is great, especially for children under 7 years old. The main component of alcohol is ethanol, which is converted into acetaldehyde by the liver after entering the human body, and then into acetic acid and excreted from the body. Some adults can drink well because the enzymes in their bodies that can break down alcohol are working.

Children's livers are not yet fully developed and their detoxification ability is relatively poor. Drinking alcohol may damage their livers, and if they drink too much, they may even fall into a coma or other serious illnesses. Drinking alcohol at a young age can cause greater harm, and in serious cases, it can also affect brain development.