【1 Medicine Network Health Column】
Recently, Aunt Zhao came to the women's and children's hospital with her 1-year-old granddaughter to test the child for trace elements, the reason is that the child does not like to eat recently, and the trace elements have been measured once in the mother and baby shop that is often visited, and the results show that there is zinc deficiency and calcium deficiency, and after Aunt Zhao buys a bunch of vitamins for the child, she is still not at ease, and she wants to come to the hospital to test it again.
After the childcare doctor measured the child's height and weight, he carefully inquired about the child's diet, believing that the child's development was normal and did not need to be tested for trace elements.
But Aunt Zhao still insisted, and after the doctor resolutely refused, she explained to Aunt Zhao that this was explicitly prohibited by the state. Aunt Zhao wondered, the mother and baby shop she often went to has been testing trace elements for free for children in the surrounding communities, why does the hospital not check it?
If you can't check the trace elements, how do you know what the child is missing, and what to do if the child's growth and development are delayed?
As for why the country prohibits the detection of trace elements, and in which cases it is necessary to detect trace elements, today 1 drug network will come to do a good job for everyone to do a good science.
Why the state prohibits children from detecting trace elements
With the continuous improvement of living standards, parents pay more and more attention to the growth and development of children, and always want to provide the best growth environment for children.
Under the long-term popular science of some so-called "parenting experts", the subtle differences in the growth and development process of children, such as love to sweat, do not love to eat for a period of time, height and weight are not as fast as neighbors' babies, parents may blindly suspect that the child lacks vitamins, and then want to detect trace elements.
However, 1 medicine network learned that as early as 2013, the "Notice on Regulating the Clinical Detection of Trace Elements in Children" issued by the state clearly pointed out that trace element detection should not be taken as a routine item of children's physical examination. Last year, the Health Commission once again stressed that all medical institutions should not carry out trace element testing for children in non-diagnostic treatment.
Many parents do not understand that after detecting trace elements, the symptoms of the child to supplement the lack of elements, is this not a good thing for children's growth and development? Why ban?
There are three main reasons.
1. Trace element detection results are not accurate
First of all, at present, there is no clear standard for the detection results of trace elements in the world, and it is not possible to judge whether children lack certain trace elements based on the test results alone, and most of the time, it is still necessary to rely on clinical judgment to make a diagnosis.
Secondly, the current methods of detecting trace elements cannot accurately determine the content of trace elements in the body. Because trace elements are distributed throughout the body, the detection of hair, the detection of blood, and even the detection of nails do not represent the trace element content of the human body as a whole.
Finally, the trace elements in the human body change greatly, which will be affected by diet, living habits, and psychological factors, and the trace elements detected each period of time may not be the same.
Therefore, it is not objective and unscientific to rely only on instruments to determine whether there is a lack of trace elements in the human body.
2. Babies with normal development generally do not lack trace elements
Children with normal development generally do not lack trace elements, and babies within 6 months of age are mainly breast milk and milk powder, and the content of various trace elements in them is sufficient, and there is generally no lack of trace elements, and there is no need to detect trace elements.
Babies after 6 months will not lack trace elements as long as they add complementary foods reasonably. Li Zhiling, deputy pharmacist and pediatrician of Shanghai Children's Hospital, said that under the current standard of living, even for older children, a normal diet can also meet the needs of trace elements.
3. Detecting trace elements has caused too many parents to pay IQ tax
Since the rise of trace element detection, it has also driven a huge demand market, and some institutions and mother and baby stores have taken free testing of trace elements as a gimmick, which actually allows many parents to buy some health care products for their children. This is not the healthiest nutritional supplement for children, and it also makes many parents pay IQ tax.
1 drug network reminder: although the content of trace elements in the human body is very small, but it is an indispensable element, is an important auxiliary and regulatory factor of human metabolism, the content of more, less will affect human health.
Although the state prohibits the detection of trace elements as a routine physical examination item for children, when children have symptoms of some diseases, it is necessary to confirm the diagnosis by detecting trace elements combined with clinical symptoms.
When trace elements need to be detected
When the child has these symptoms, 1 medicine network recommends that trace elements should be detected in time to determine the cause.
Severe malnutrition
When children grow up, their height and weight are always below average, and severe malnutrition can help determine the cause of children by detecting trace elements.
Excessive partiality
Some children will only love to eat a certain food situation, long-term intake of a single food, it is easy to lead to the lack of trace elements, affecting the health and development of children, this situation can be detected by trace elements, to timely supplement the lack of elements in the body.
Children with congenital genetic metabolic diseases
The main role of trace elements is to promote human metabolism, and some congenital genetic children with metabolic diseases do need to be assisted by the detection of trace elements.
Developing babies do not need additional trace elements supplementation, and can meet the body's demand for trace elements through rich dietary intake. Different foods contain different trace elements, 1 medicine network suggests that parents can reasonably give their children these foods.
Iron: Animal liver, animal blood, red meat, seafood are rich in iron.
Zinc: Oysters, flower clams and other shellfish seafood, as well as red meat, animal offal, peanut oil and other zinc content is relatively rich.
Selenium: Seafood, meat, animal offal, especially animal kidneys are rich in selenium.
Iodine: Kelp, seaweed, dried scallops, sea cucumbers, jellyfish and other iodine content is rich.
Scientific parenting should not only change the wrong traditional parenting habits, but also have their own judgment on modern parenting methods, and do not blindly follow, so as not to cause unnecessary harm to children.