During pregnancy, pregnant women will increase their demand for zinc. If zinc is not properly supplemented, it is easy to have some symptoms of zinc deficiency, such as loss of appetite and low immunity.

Symptoms of zinc deficiency in pregnant women

Zinc is one of the essential trace elements for human body. Zinc deficiency will affect people's health to some extent. If it leads to thymus dysplasia, lymphocyte atrophy, decreased immune function, etc. Severe cases may also lead to dwarfism, primary male infertility and viral hepatitis. Pregnant women should pay special attention to timely and appropriate zinc supplementation during pregnancy, because the body's demand for zinc will gradually increase. Specifically, zinc deficiency has the following symptoms:

1, loss of appetite: picky eaters, anorexia, refusing to eat, generally eating less, no hunger, not taking the initiative to eat;

2. Feel free to eat strange things. For example: biting nails, clothes, eating toys, hard objects, eating hair, scraps of paper, raw rice, wall ash, mud, sand, etc.

3, low immunity, frequent colds and fever;

4. Recurrent respiratory infections, such as tonsillitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, sweating, night sweats during sleep, etc.

5. There are white spots on the nails, long barbs on the fingers, and a map tongue (irregular red and white patterns on the surface of the tongue);

6. Slow response and inattention;

7, vision problems: decreased vision, easy to lead to night vision difficulties, myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and so on. ;

8, skin damage: when trauma occurs, the wound is not easy to heal; Susceptible to dermatitis and intractable eczema;

9. Recurrent oral ulcer.

What are the manifestations of zinc deficiency in pregnant women?

During pregnancy, pregnant women's demand for zinc will gradually increase, and pregnant women are prone to zinc deficiency such as poor taste and smell and anorexia. 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 the pregnant woman and the fetus. Pregnant women with zinc deficiency will also have the following manifestations:

1, pregnancy reaction is aggravated, such as acidophilia and vomiting will be more serious;

2. Fetal intrauterine growth retardation leads 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, and 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 are the symptoms of zinc deficiency?

1, loss of appetite: picky eaters, anorexia, refusing to eat, generally eating less, no hunger, not taking the initiative to eat;

2. Eat strange things. For example: biting nails, clothes, eating toys, hard objects, eating hair, scraps of paper, raw rice, wall ash, mud, sand, etc.

3, low immunity, frequent colds and fever;

4. Recurrent respiratory infections such as tonsillitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, sweating, night sweats during sleep, etc.

5. There are white spots on the nails, long barbs on the fingers, and a map tongue (irregular red and white patterns on the surface of the tongue);

6. Slow response and inattention;

7, vision problems: decreased vision, easy to lead to night vision difficulties, myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and so on. ;

8, skin damage: when trauma occurs, the wound is not easy to heal; Susceptible to dermatitis and intractable eczema;

9. Recurrent oral ulcer.