Zinc is an important trace element and an essential nutrient for our growth and development.
In China, children in urban and rural areas are generally short of zinc, and infants aged 0-3 are the most vulnerable to zinc deficiency.
Newborns, infants and preschool children will have a variety of cognitive disorders, behavioral and emotional changes if they are short of zinc for a long time.
The so-called cognitive impairment simply means that children have certain obstacles in memory, understanding, execution, computing ability and visual space ability, which seriously affects their normal development.
Symptoms of zinc deficiency in infants
1, loss of appetite, eating indiscriminately
Zinc deficiency will affect the mucosa of the tongue and reduce the sensitivity of taste.
The baby eats less every day and has the symptoms of picky eaters and anorexia.
There are also babies who eat indiscriminately, like biting their fingers, eating sand, dirt and so on.
2. stunting
Zinc participates in the metabolism of the body, and zinc deficiency 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 can lead to low immunity, easy to be infected by virus, and symptoms such as cold, fever and bronchitis.
If the child is already short of zinc, how should parents supplement zinc?
This requires consulting a doctor. Generally, the zinc deficiency is serious, and the doctor will ask for some medicine, but generally the zinc deficiency is slight, and the doctor will recommend food supplement.
Food zinc can be supplemented by eating some seafood, such as oysters, shellfish, fish, shrimp, crabs, etc. These foods are rich in zinc ions. You can also eat vegetables and fruits rich in zinc, vitamins and trace elements, which can supplement zinc.
The child's growth retardation is actually caused by zinc deficiency! Correctly matching complementary food can help your baby to have an appetite and grow up.
When the child is 6 months old, parents can add complementary food to the child, no later than 8 months. In the process of adding food to children, we should step by step, from less to more, from thin to thick, from fine to thick, from one to many.
To add complementary food, you need to add it slowly when the child is healthy and has normal digestive function, and you can't force the child to eat it.
Parents need to pay 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 rich in zinc, so that the child will not be short of zinc.
When planning a child's diet, a mother 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 to ensure that the baby gets all the nutrients needed by the body.
Babies under 3 years old are in the golden age of physical and intellectual development, so eating good complementary food is very important for children's growth.
Eating complementary food well is directly related to children's intellectual development, physical growth and immunity. Therefore, if you want to feed a healthy, intelligent, immune and not sick baby, a good food supplement book is essential.
Here comes the question again. Many treasure moms 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 complementary food book "What complementary food to eat every week" to parents. The author of this book is Liu Changwei, a nutritionist and master of nutrition in Nanjing Children's Hospital. Zhang Silai, a parenting expert, strongly recommends this book.
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 infants to add complementary food? What are the misunderstandings of parents about easy access to complementary food? What problems are easy to occur in the process of adding complementary food? What complementary food tools does the baby need to prepare? Wait a minute.
"What to eat in weekly complementary food" teaches parents to avoid misunderstanding, and at the same time gives weekly complementary food recipes.
This paper lists the complementary food recipes that children from 6 months to 1 year-old should eat every week, with pictures and texts, detailed explanations and easy to learn.
1-3 years old, various recipes on how to supplement calcium, iron, zinc and selenium to prevent constipation and cough are practical.
There are also some quantitative tables and knowledge of adding complementary food in the appendix.
In short, this thick "What complementary foods to eat every week" is illustrated with pictures and texts, and there are 2 15 complementary foods with various patterns and complete nutrition, explaining the nutritional components and functions of each complementary food in detail. Children like it and adults can learn it easily.
Holding a good book in your hand, you will feel confident when you feed your child complementary food, especially during the six-month period from the age of 6 to 1, how to make complementary food step by step and nutritionally for your child is completely unnecessary for parents to worry about, because the weekly recipes are clearly arranged, and as long as parents follow them, delicious and nutritious complementary food can satisfy their appetite.
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, so why not?
"What complementary food to eat 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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