Sometimes I hear mothers complaining that every time they make a hard meal, their children eat a few mouthfuls and then stop eating, is it a zinc deficiency? Most parents are so concerned about the "lack of calcium", because the lack of calcium will delay the child to rise, but mentioned the "lack of zinc", but often very easy to be overlooked by everyone. The first stage of the zinc deficiency is not a significant performance, and when the child can see the significant symptoms, generally has been a more serious zinc deficiency.
If parents think that the lack of zinc only affects the child's meal, it is wrong! To know, the child if the lack of zinc is very easy to have no appetite, no appetite to eat less also picky eaters, picky eaters are more likely to lack of zinc. Once a child is deficient in zinc, gradually will have poor resistance, physical weakness, and in the long run affect the growth rate, and even cause the child after a short or mental retardation and other serious harm.
There are six characteristics of zinc-deficient children:1. Decreased digestive function: When the child's body occurs in the condition of zinc deficiency, there will be a decrease in appetite, picky eaters, loss of appetite or do not want to eat and so on, the root cause is that the child does not feel hungry, and will not take the initiative to say that they want to eat. And even continue to occur lactose intolerance is likely.
2, intellectual development: If the more serious zinc deficiency, the child's intellectual development will suffer some impact, because the body of zinc deficiency will make the brain nerve DHA and protein synthesis caused by abnormalities, resulting in the child's brain development problems, such as inattention, slow reaction, lack of concentration, poor learning ability and so on.
3, slow growth and development: because there is no zinc cell metabolism will produce a block, resulting in the role of children's growth hormone pumping found abnormal, prompting the child to grow and develop slower than children of the same age. For example, if a child's height growth is slow, it may be due to a zinc deficiency.
4, immune function decline: if the child is deficient in zinc, its own immune ability cell function will decline, very easy to make the child sense of disease, such as fever and cold, respiratory infections.
5, the wound is difficult to heal: in the child has a trauma, the wound will be difficult to heal the situation, that can indicate that the child is deficient in zinc, but also easy to make the child get allergic dermatitis, persistent eczema and other diseases.
6, low serum zinc: I think many parents understand, when the child is deficient in zinc, in the test will occur in the serum zinc content is low, the general standard value is not easy to exceed 11.47.