Q: Dr. good afternoon, please, help me I gave coke to my 4 Months old daughter yesterday, now she just went to toilet now and I discover she has jedi-jedi. Please what drugs should I buy for her?

A: Okay, I know that different people wean their babies with different foods but there are a couple of issues here: first at 4 months, your baby should still be on exclusive breast feeding until she’s 6 months old. Then, when weaning starts, this should ideally be started with cereals. Remember that you should be modeling the right nutrition behavior for your baby now. If you introduce her to a diet of refined sugars now, it may be difficult to get her off them later. Recall that diets like this open her up to obesity and other lifestyle diseases. Caffeine found in some of these drinks can cause headaches, tummy upset, increased heart rate and increased blood pressure, amongst other effects. Having said that, what’s done is done. How to move beyond this?

If your baby is still taking breast milk, please go back to this…hoping that you will still make enough breast milk, if you have already introduced other foods to baby’s diet. As for jedi-jedi, what exactly do you mean as the term is used interchangeably to mean haemorrhoids (pile) and/or dysentery (poop with blood or mucous in it)? If you mean any of this and your baby still has this, please take her to see her paediatrician as soon as possible.

Other useful posts on weaning and caffeine are included with links below:

Daily Health Tips: Can I Start Solids For My Baby By 4 Months?

Daily Health Tips: Coffee, Energy Drinks et al

Daily Health Tips: My 7-Month Old Has Rashes And Still Gets Most Of Her Food From Breast Milk!

Daily Health Tips: I Think My Daughter Is Small For Her Age!

Daily Health Tips: Baby Bottle Tooth Decay

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