During pregnancy, pregnant women will gradually increase their demand for zinc. Pregnant women should pay special attention to poor taste, poor sense of smell, anorexia and other symptoms, which is the performance of zinc deficiency. If zinc is not supplemented in time, the growth and intellectual development of the fetus will be lower than normal, which is not good for pregnant women and the fetus. Pregnant women with zinc deficiency will also have the following symptoms:
1, pregnancy reaction will be aggravated, such as acidosis and vomiting.
2, intrauterine growth retardation: lead to premature infants and low birth weight infants.
3. Increased delivery complications: prolonged labor, abortion, premature delivery, increased fetal malformation rate and central nervous system malformation, resulting in a decrease in the total number of fetal brain cells.
4, maternal uterine contraction is weak, it is difficult to give birth smoothly.
5, low immunity, easy to repeatedly infect.
6, skin damage is not easy to repair: when trauma occurs, the wound is not easy to heal, and dermatitis and intractable eczema are prone to occur.
7, loss of appetite, taste and smell disorders.
8, prone to hair loss, memory loss, chronic fatigue and other symptoms.
What do pregnant women eat for zinc deficiency?
1. It is best to supplement zinc for pregnant women with food supplements. The foods with high zinc content are oysters and malt, followed by fish, milk, lean meat, walnuts, peanuts, sesame seeds, laver and animal liver.
2. Pregnant women should also eat more foods rich in zinc, such as cabbage, seafood, pumpkin, eggplant, beans and nuts.
3. In the field of fruits, apples are rich in nutrients, which not only contain trace elements such as zinc, but also contain many nutrients such as lipids, carbohydrates and vitamins, especially the high content of fine fiber, which is beneficial to the development of hippocampus on the edge of fetal cerebral cortex and helps the memory of fetus. Pregnant women can meet the zinc requirement by eating 1-2 apples a day.
What are the symptoms of zinc deficiency in baby?
1, the development is slow. That is, the baby is 3-6 cm shorter than children of the same age and 2-3 kg lighter.
2. the immunity is getting worse. When the baby has recurrent symptoms of fever and cold, or recurrent symptoms of respiratory infection such as tonsillitis, bronchitis and pneumonia, accompanied by sweating and night sweats, it is necessary to be alert to zinc deficiency.
3, hyperactivity, poor attention. If the baby has symptoms such as inattention, poor learning ability, hyperactivity and slow response, be alert to the possibility of zinc deficiency.
4, nail white spots. If the baby's fingernails have white spots, fingers have barbs and map tongues, you need to be alert to the possibility of zinc deficiency.
5. pica tendency. If the baby often eats some non-food things, parents also need to be vigilant, such as biting nails, clothes, eating toys, hard objects, eating hair, scraps of paper, uncooked rice, wall dust, dirt, sand and so on.
6. Recurrent oral ulcer.
7, vision loss. Zinc deficiency easily leads to night vision difficulty, myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and other symptoms.
8. Skin problems. When trauma occurs, the wound is not easy to heal; Susceptible to dermatitis and intractable eczema.
9. Adolescent sexual retardation. For example, the genitals, testicles and penis of boys are too small, with low testosterone content and low sexual function; Female breast development and late menstrual cramps.
What does the baby eat to supplement zinc?
Baby zinc supplement, the first choice is complementary food, that is to say, eat more food containing more zinc. When the food supplement is not satisfied, zinc can be supplemented by drugs, but the medicine should be taken according to the doctor's advice to avoid trace element poisoning and harm to health.
Foods with high zinc content include beef, mutton, lean pork, animal liver, peanuts, soybeans, carrots and oysters. It can be seen that children lacking zinc need to eat more meat. According to the determination, the zinc content of animal food is higher than that of plant food, and the amino acids produced by protein decomposition of animals can promote the absorption of zinc, and the absorption rate is generally around 50%; However, zinc contained in plant foods can combine with plant acids and cellulose to form water-insoluble compounds, which hinder human absorption, and the absorption rate is only about 20%. Artificial feeding of infants should begin to add easily absorbed zinc-rich complementary foods: lean meat powder, egg yolk, fish paste, animal liver, oysters, peanut rice flour, walnut kernel powder, etc. Starting from 4 months.
When children are 5 years old, they can get enough zinc directly from food. If you want your baby to "eat" the zinc he needs every day through food, you should educate your child from an early age to develop a good habit of not being picky about food and not being partial to food, pay attention to the reasonable balance of diet structure, and mix coarse grains with coarse grains. In this way, children are generally not short of zinc. Children should also be careful not to eat too much sugar and sweets, so as not to affect the absorption of zinc. In addition, it should be noted that the symptoms of zinc deficiency are obvious or diagnosed as zinc deficiency, and drug supplementation must be carried out. Because everyone's gastrointestinal absorption capacity is different, it is not timely or comprehensive to rely solely on food supplements.