1, poor appetite, picky eaters, anorexia

In life photos, children are prone to picky eaters and anorexia, which is a typical manifestation of zinc deficiency in children.

2. pica

Children will blindly eat things, such as pieces of paper, hair, uncooked rice, mud, sand and other strange things.

3. Immunity declines.

Zinc-deficient babies are prone to frequent colds and fever, which is easy to happen, and can also lead to respiratory infections, tonsillitis, sleep sweating and so on.

4. Slow growth and development

Needless to say, compared with babies of the same age, their height and weight are relatively poor, with a height of 3-6cm and a weight of 2-3kg.

5, nail white spots/barbs

Parents can tell by looking at their baby's nails. There will be white spots and it is easy to grow fleshy thorns. This is caused by the stinging and zinc deficiency.

6, oral ulcer/map tongue

There will be irregular red and white patterns on the surface of the baby's tongue, which is the map tongue. Relatively different is oral ulcer, which is a common ulcerative injury disease that occurs in oral mucosa. More common in the inner lip, tongue, tongue abdomen, buccal mucosa, vestibular sulcus, soft palate and other parts, so that babies feel pain.