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The amount of fluid a child needs depends on many factors including their age, their gender, the weather and how much physical activity they do, but generally they should aim to drink about 6-8 glasses of fluid per day (on top of the water provided by food in their diet).
Vitamin C is water soluble, so any excess is flushed from the body in your child's urine. However, megadoses can still cause nausea, diarrhea, kidney stones, and gastritis (inflammation of the stomach lining). Children ages 1 to 3 should not get more than 400 mg of vitamin C a day.Children ages 4 to 8 should not get more than 650 mg a day. Those are the maximum amounts considered safe by the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine.et ideas from other parents on how to get your child to drink more water, from serving it in princess cups to adding fizzy fru... Iron in your child's diet. Get the scoop on how much iron children need, why iron is important for kids, the best food sources, and how much iron is too m... Vitamin D in your child's diet.