INFANT FEEDING.
1. If the bowel movements are curdy, we may take it as an indication of an excess of proteids.
2. Sour vomiting often indicates too much fat
3. Stools that are very watery but without curds may result from too much sugar or too much fat.
4. Vomiting of hard, curdy masses may indicate too much proteids.
5. Should the child seem to do well on its food in every way except that it does not gain in weight, it may be that the sugar is too low.
6. Vomiting may mean that the child has eaten too much.
7. Breast milk is the best infant food.
8. No artificial food can or should be trusted which does not contain the essentials of breast-milk—viz., fat, proteids, and sugar.
9. The elements named are to be found only in milk, cows’ milk being the only one available for general use.
10. Cows’ milk must be modified, because it does not contain the same proportions of the elements named.