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Some time ago, the daughter's appetite is not very good, each meal is to eat two bites will not eat, friends around the child after looking at the child's hair, nails said: "You see the child's hair is scarce and yellow, there are also white spots on the nails, indebted, this is the performance of zinc deficiency, to the child to make up, the appetite will open."
Subsequently, I also saw an advertisement for zinc supplementation on TV, and the advertising slogan was "if the child does not eat, he will supplement zinc", and Wen Wen's father's heart immediately went up and down.
First I went to the pharmacy near my home, ready to buy some zinc supplements directly, and then took out a box of more than 200 oral solutions. In the end, the wife was too expensive, so she first went to the hospital to check the trace elements, and then bought them.
Took my daughter to the hospital to check the trace elements, and the zinc element was indeed low! Then he took some oral solution of zinc supplements at the hospital and went home.
But after my daughter drank for a while, her appetite did change! Wen Wen's father became interested in "zinc supplementation", so he consulted relevant information on the Internet and also consulted with doctor friends around him. Finally figured out the symptoms of zinc deficiency and the correct way to check and supplement zinc, now share with you, interested pro, you can understand:
01. What is zinc deficiency? What are the effects of zinc deficiency?
In the process of children's growth, it is indispensable to help various trace elements, such as zinc, which will participate in the child's metabolic system and have an important impact on the child's brain development and appetite.
If the child lacks zinc in the body, it is likely to cause a vicious circle: the child is deficient in zinc, it is easy to have a bad appetite, the appetite is not good, it is easy to be picky, and the picky eating is serious, which will cause the child's growth and development to slow down, shorter than children of the same age, and the serious one will also cause "zinc deficiency dwarf".
In fact, in simple terms, the most direct impact of zinc deficiency is:
Children have a bad appetite, poor appetite, do not like to eat, no matter how carefully the parents prepare, the child does not seem to be very interested. If the child does not like to eat for a long time, the body can not absorb nutrients, over time, the body's resistance will decline, prone to frequent colds, diarrhea and other symptoms.
02, the child has these symptoms, is the manifestation of zinc deficiency
The daughter lacks zinc in her body, and the most direct manifestation is that she does not like to eat, has a poor appetite, and even if she is the favorite dish before, she has gradually lost interest.
Wen Wen Dad summed up the common symptoms of zinc deficiency in children by consulting information and consulting with doctors and friends around him, and parents can compare themselves:
Do not like to eat, poor appetite
Zinc deficiency will reduce the sensitivity of children's taste buds, so that they have no appetite for eating anything; at the same time, the digestive ability in the body will also be weakened, so that children do not feel hungry, natural appetite will also be reduced, showing that eating is not active enough, and even do not love to eat.
Growth retardation, love to get sick
Zinc deficiency in children will affect growth and development! My daughter didn't like to eat during that time, felt that the whole person was thin, and when she went to the hospital to do child care, the growth curve was lower than the average.
During that time, my daughter was always in a cold for three days and two ends, and almost every day she asked for leave for kindergarten teachers, either taking medicine at home or on the way to the hospital, really exhausted.
Children have rare hair and yellow hair
When taking a daughter to do child care, when the pediatrician talks about the symptoms of zinc deficiency, he mentions that the child's zinc deficiency will cause hair loss, and in severe cases, it will lead to hair loss, and secondly, the color of the hair will be yellow and the texture will be soft.
The reason is that the hair does not absorb enough nutrients, and the growth rate will naturally slow down.
All in all, when children have symptoms such as taste disorders, partial eating, anorexia, stunted growth, shortness, thinness, dry skin, and difficulty in healing wounds, parents should be wary of zinc deficiency in their children.
Can you take your child to the hospital to assess diet, growth and development, and even draw blood tests to diagnose whether your child is zinc deficiency? And whether extra zinc supplementation is required.
Generally speaking, as long as the child is usually nutritionally balanced, not partial to food and not picky. At the same time, it does not suffer from other diseases that affect the absorption of zinc, and basically there is no zinc deficiency.
03. Whether the child is deficient in zinc, how to check?
Many parents believe that to assess whether their child is zinc deficient, it is enough to draw blood to check for trace elements. In fact, this is very unreliable!
Wen Wenpa consulted the data and found that trace element examination is generally through blood tests, but most of the zinc in the human body is present in bones and muscles, and the content in the blood is very small.
In other words, it is very unreliable to check the content of zinc in trace elements by drawing blood to determine whether the child is deficient in zinc.
If you want to accurately determine whether a child is deficient in zinc, you need to evaluate it through the child's diet, growth and development, etc., in short, it is a systematic and huge project.
04, children are deficient in zinc, how to supplement it correctly?
What is related to the child's entrance, everything must not be sloppy, under the premise of clarifying the child's zinc deficiency, want the child to supplement zinc correctly and safely, Wen Wen Dad suggested that it is best to make up for it through diet.
Through the analysis of the diet of zinc-deficient children, it was found that most of them had insufficient intake of animal foods and cereal foods, while sweets and passive smoking were more. There is a highly toxic element in cigarette smoke, cadmium, which interferes with the absorption and functioning of zinc in the body.
Therefore, parents who suspect that their children are deficient in zinc and want to supplement zinc to their children should let their children eat more meat and cereal staple foods as much as possible, while eating less sweets, less smoking or second-hand smoke, and first carry out anti-smoking campaigns at home.
The intake of zinc is related to the age of the child, and the daily intake of infants and young children under 3 years of age is 2-3 mg;
As far as the current standard of living is concerned, as long as the child eats a balanced diet, does not eat partially and is not picky, the child will generally not be deficient in zinc. If you are really worried, work harder on your diet, such as letting your children eat more meat, eggs, and milk, eat less sweets, and smoke less second-hand smoke, basically you can rest assured.
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