In daily life, it is not only adults who need to get enough iron, but also infants. According to the report on the nutritional development of children aged 0-6 in China, the anemia rate of infants aged 6-24 months is the highest, which can reach about 3 1%. That is to say, 1 in every 3 babies is anemic.
If the baby has insufficient iron intake for a long time, it is also prone to iron deficiency symptoms, such as indifference to parents, irritability, indifference to surrounding things, pale face, brittle nails, and inattention.
In severe cases, it will increase the probability of iron deficiency anemia in infants, and also affect the improvement of infant immune system and delay physical development.
Therefore, when the baby has these symptoms, Bao Ma should supplement the baby with iron in time. For the baby before 6 months, whether breastfeeding or drinking formula milk for the baby can meet the needs of the body.
A baby of 6~ 12 months will consume a lot of iron as he grows up, but breastfeeding is not enough to meet his physical needs. This requires treasure mothers to let their babies get enough iron from a reasonable diet after adding complementary food to their babies.
According to the recommendation of China Nutrition Society, the daily iron supplement for babies aged 6~ 12 months is 10mg. Based on this, the specific measures are as follows:
At the beginning of adding complementary food to your baby, you may wish to choose high-iron rice noodles.
Baby eats complementary food for the first time, and the practice of adding it is mainly based on less and less. High-iron rice flour is a good choice. When buying iron-fortified rice noodles, treasure moms must carefully check whether there is a word "high-speed rail" and whether they can be taken with formula milk, breast milk and water.
Be careful not to give your baby rice flour ground at home or rice flour that adults like to eat, which can't meet your baby's needs.
After choosing the right high-iron rice flour for your baby, you can eat it according to your baby's stomach size. If the baby has itchy skin, redness, red eyes, thin stool with mucus and cough after eating, it may be allergic.
Bao Ma should choose potatoes instead. If there is still iron deficiency, at the doctor's suggestion, you can consider taking iron-rich nutritional supplements to your baby to avoid anemia. Don't decide to supplement them without permission.
Besides high-iron rice noodles, you can also choose foods rich in iron.
Such as pork tenderloin, beef tenderloin, animal liver, chicken and duck blood, etc. Because it was just added to the baby, in order to let the baby digest, absorb and accept complementary food better. Bao Ma had better make the meat into a paste with a large proportion of water. After the baby slowly accepts it, it will transition to broken meat to meet the baby's iron demand.