Calcium deficiency will affect the baby's growth, has been everyone's consensus, although calcium is not the only factor affecting height, but want the baby to grow tall and let the baby's bones develop more healthy and strong, calcium deficiency is absolutely not OK.
Calcium deficiency, in addition to affecting the baby's bone development and height, there are also these hazards:
1. Calcium is the main component of cell membranes, and cell isolation and proliferation are inseparable from the participation of calcium. Calcium deficiency can affect growth and brain development.
2. Calcium can regulate muscle contraction. Calcium deficiency can easily lead to muscle twitches, that is, cramps, and baby hand and foot twitches.
3. Calcium can maintain the normal level of heart rate and blood pressure, and calcium deficiency will make people feel depressed and overly nervous.
4. Calcium deficiency in infants and young children can lead to rickets, pediatric hand and foot twitches and other diseases. Severe rickets, if not treated in time, can leave a lifelong legacy.
Since calcium deficiency can have many effects on the healthy growth of your baby, it is especially important to prevent calcium deficiency. So, there are treasure mothers who will ask: What are the manifestations of calcium deficiency in babies? This issue of Shepherd Baby will take you to understand it!
1, it is not easy to fall asleep, sleep is not real. Night terrors and night crying are one of the manifestations of calcium deficiency in babies. Usually newborns who lack calcium will often wake up suddenly at night and cry incessantly.
2. Night sweats. After falling asleep, the head sweats a lot, and sweating is more pronounced after crying.
3. Calcium deficiency will also be manifested as poor mental state, loss of appetite, lack of interest in the surrounding environment, convulsions, mental retardation, and decreased immune function.
4. Abnormal temperament. Baby calcium deficiency will have a strange temper, often appear irritable, crying, fidgeting and other manifestations, not easy to take care of.
5. Delay in closing the front door. The anterior fontanelle is usually closed at 1 to 1.5 years of age, and babies with calcium deficiency usually do not close after 1 and a half years of age, forming a square skull.
6. Occipital bald circle. "Pillow baldness" is a week of thinning hair on the back of the head, because the baby who lacks calcium is prone to sweating, resulting in easy hair loss at the back of the head, forming a circle of occipital baldness. Occipital baldness can reflect part of calcium deficiency, but not absolutely.
7. Growth retardation, late toddler, osteoarticular deformity. Calcium deficiency has the most obvious effect on the baby's bone and muscle development, most of which are manifested by walking late, or symptoms such as X-shaped legs, O-legs, and leg bone pain.
8. Muscle tendon relaxation. Calcium deficiency is severe, if the abdominal wall muscles, will lead to the relaxation of the intestinal wall muscles, can cause the intestinal lumen to accumulate gas and form an abdomen swollen like a frog abdomen. If the tendons of the spine are loose, hunchback, chicken breast, and sternum pain may occur.
9. Beaded rib cartilage hyperplasia. Neonatal calcium deficiency, cartilage hyperplasia of each rib is connected like a string of beads, often compressing the lungs, making the newborn poor ventilation, easy to suffer from tracheitis, pneumonia.
10. Late teething, uneven tooth arrangement. Some babies still don't have teeth by the time they are 1.5 years old, or their teeth are underdeveloped, occludally misaligned, have uneven teeth alignment, loosen, or fall out prematurely.
11. Infant eczema, mostly on the top of the head, face, behind the ears, serious can spread throughout the body. Erythema and papules appear at the affected area, and then become blisters, erosions, and scabs.
12, because of the lack of calcium will also cause the baby's immunity, resistance decline, so the baby often cold, fever, diarrhea.
If the baby has some of the above manifestations, it is likely to be a manifestation of calcium deficiency, but it should be noted that these symptoms do not mean that the baby must be calcium deficient.
Baby calcium deficiency, mothers do not blindly supplement, to take the baby to the hospital in time to confirm the diagnosis, must seek medical treatment to confirm the situation, from the complementary food, drug assistance and other aspects, timely to the baby calcium supplement, to ensure the healthy growth of the baby!