School Health Team

FLUID INTAKE

  • Children should be encouraged to drink water-based fluids, if possible.
  • Children should be discouraged from drinking more than one pint of milk to the exclusion of solid food.
  • Children should drink between six to eight 250ml cups per day.
  • School aged children should have three of those drinks during the school day.

 

(RCN guidance, 2013)

Further information on potty training can be found at NHS Choices

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