Zinc is an important trace element and an essential nutrient for our growth and development.
In China, zinc deficiency is common among children in urban and rural areas, and infants aged 0-3 are the most vulnerable to zinc deficiency.
Newborns, infants and preschool children will suffer from multiple cognitive impairment, behavioral and emotional changes if they are short of zinc for a long time.
The so-called cognitive impairment is simply that children's memory, understanding, execution, computing ability and visual space ability all have certain obstacles, which seriously affect their normal development.
Symptoms of zinc deficiency in baby
1, loss of appetite, eating indiscriminately
Zinc deficiency will affect the mucosa of the tongue, which will reduce the sensitivity of taste.
The baby eats less every day, and there are symptoms of picky eaters and anorexia.
There are also babies who eat indiscriminately, like biting their fingers, eating sand, dirt and so on.
2. Developmental retardation
Zinc participates in the metabolism of the body, and the lack of zinc will affect the production of growth hormone.
If the child is found to be 3-4 cm shorter than his peers, it is likely to be related to zinc deficiency.
3. Low immunity
Zinc is also one of the important elements of human immune system. Zinc deficiency will lead to low immunity, easy to be infected by viruses, and symptoms such as colds, fever and bronchitis will appear.
If the child is already short of zinc, how should parents supplement zinc?
This requires consulting a doctor's advice. Generally, zinc deficiency is serious, and doctors will ask for some medicines, but generally, zinc deficiency is slight, and doctors will recommend food supplements.
Food zinc can be supplemented by eating some seafood foods, such as oysters, shellfish, fish, shrimp and crabs, which are all rich in zinc ions. You can also take vegetables and fruits rich in zinc vitamins and trace elements, which can all play a role in zinc supplementation.
The child's growth retardation turned out to be caused by zinc deficiency! Correct collocation of complementary food can help the baby to have an appetite and grow longer.
When the child is 6 months old, parents can add complementary food to the child, which should not exceed 8 months at the latest. In the process of adding food to the child, it should be gradual, from less to more, from thin to thick, from fine to thick, from one to many.
Add complementary food, you need to add it slowly when children are healthy and have normal digestive function, and you can't force children to eat.
Parents need to pay some attention, because the baby is still very young and the digestive system is not perfect, so parents should carefully choose complementary foods that are suitable for the baby and easy to digest, as well as complementary foods with rich zinc content, so that children will not be short of zinc.
When a mother plans her child's diet, she should not blindly follow the child's preferences, but must make a daily diet according to the baby's development and nutritional needs.
Pay attention to the diversity and health of the diet and ensure that the baby gets all the nutrients needed by the body.
Babies under 3 years old are in the golden period of physical and intellectual development, and eating good complementary food is very important for children's growth.
Whether complementary food is eaten well is directly related to children's intellectual development, physical growth and immunity. Therefore, a good complementary food book is essential if you want to feed a healthy, intelligent and immune baby who doesn't like to get sick.
This problem is coming again. Many treasure mothers don't know how to regulate their baby's spleen and stomach because of their lack of experience or related parenting knowledge. What should they do?
Here, I recommend an authoritative supplementary food book "What do you eat for supplementary food every week" to parents. The author of this book is Liu Changwei, a nutritionist and master of nutrition in Nanjing Children's Hospital. This book has been strongly recommended by Zhang Silai, a child-rearing expert.
This thick complementary food book is very rich in content, which almost solves all the problems that babies will encounter in complementary food feeding.
For example, what are the basic principles for babies to add complementary food? What are the misunderstandings of parents' easy-to-enter complementary foods? What problems are easy to occur in the process of adding complementary food? What tools does the baby need to prepare for complementary food? Wait a minute.
"What to eat in complementary food every week" teaches parents to avoid misunderstandings, and at the same time gives weekly complementary food recipes.
This paper lists the complementary food recipes that children should eat every week from 6 months to 1 one year old, with pictures and texts, detailed explanations and easy to learn.
Between children 1 year-old and 3-year-old, various recipes on how to supplement calcium, iron, zinc, selenium, prevent constipation and stop cough are given, and the content is practical.
There are also some quantitative tables and knowledge about adding complementary food in the appendix.
In a word, this thick "What do you eat for complementary foods every week" is illustrated with pictures and texts. 2 15 complementary foods are full of patterns and nutrients, and the nutritional components and functions of each complementary food are explained in detail. Children love it and adults can learn it easily.
With a good book in your hand, you will have a bottom in your heart when you feed your child complementary food. Especially in the half year from the age of 6 to 1 one year old, parents don't have to worry about how to make complementary food step by step and nutritionally, because every week's recipes are clearly arranged, and parents can satisfy their children's appetite as long as they follow.
This book is accompanied by videos, which is also very convenient for the elderly to use.
The price is also very cheap, as long as 69, you can ensure the nutritional balance of children's complementary food, why not?
"What do you eat for complementary food every week" can be used for three years.
The complementary food books for children must be genuine, because children's health is priceless.
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