Lactose or milk-sugar is best for normal babies. It may split up in the intestines into acids and when it ferments is likely to be a laxative. Sucrose (cane-sugar) has no advantage over lactose, except that it is cheaper. Do not give sucrose if other sugars are on hand.
Maltose (malt-sugar) is expensive and is never given pure.
Dissolve all sugars in warm sterilized water. Malt extract is more laxative than other milk-sugar preparations. Malt extract should be brought to boiling-point only.
PROPRIETARY FOODS.
- Condensed and evaporated milks.
- Malted foods, containing starch.
- Starchy foods and various dry powders.
- Kindolac, a dried milk.
- Imperial Granum. Used in the same way as barley flour is prepared.
- Eskay’s Food, which is valueless unless mixed with cows’ milk.
- Mellin’s Food and Horlick’s Malted Milk.
The difference between Mellin’s and Horlick’s food is that Horlick’s Milk has as its basis a dried milk preparation containing maltose and dextrins. Use proprietary powders in the same way as oatmeal or flour barley.
Note.—Proprietary foods are only given to tide over a delayed feeding of mother’s milk.
CARBOHYDRATE FORMULÆ.
| Horlick’s food, | 11 | teaspoonfuls |
| Dextrimaltose, | 10 | “ |
| Mellin’s Food, | 11 | “ |
| Milk-sugar, | 9 | “ |
| Barley flour, | 15 | “ |
| Flour ball, | 12 | “ |
| Dissolve carbohydrates in sterilized water before adding milk. | ||
| All mixtures should be cold when adding milk. | ||