zinc is one of the essential trace elements for human body. Zinc deficiency will lead to thymus hypoplasia, lymphocyte atrophy, immune function decline, and affect the growth and development of children. So once the lack of trace elements in the human body can easily cause children's intellectual development, what are the manifestations or symptoms of zinc deficiency in the baby? What food does darling lack zinc to eat more better?
Zinc deficiency in infants often has the following manifestations:
1. Low immunity, repeated infection: frequent cold and fever, repeated respiratory tract infections such as tonsillitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, sweating, sleeping night sweat;
2. The height was 3-6cm lower and the weight was 2-3kg lighter than that of the same age group;
3. Mental dysplasia: hyperactivity, slow response, inattention, poor learning ability;
4. Anorexia: pickiness, anorexia, refusal to eat, including food, generally reduced food intake, some children do not feel hunger, do not take the initiative to eat;
5. Pica: biting nails, clothes, toys, hard things, eating hair, paper scraps, raw rice, wall ash, soil, sand and stone, etc;
6. Vision problems: vision decline, easy to cause night vision difficulties, myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, etc;
7. Skin damage: when there is trauma, the wound is not easy to heal; prone to dermatitis, stubborn eczema;
8. Others: fidgety, sweating, map tongue, nail white spots, multiple barbed fingers, mouth ulcers, yellow hair, sparse or falling off. If so, go to the hospital to take blood samples to check the trace elements, you can be sure that if it's zinc, you can drink the oral liquid of zinc supplement in addition to the food supplement mentioned above, and the effect is also good to improve your baby's immunity and zinc supplement.
Best food source
Oyster, beef, animal liver, egg and fish are the foods with high zinc content.
Soybean, lentil, eggplant, Chinese cabbage, white radish, broccoli, spinach, mustard and fennel are vegetables with high zinc content; walnut and peanut are nuts with high zinc content; Apple has the highest zinc content in fruit.