What are the precautions you need to know when giving your baby a zinc supplement?

To give the baby zinc need to pay attention to is: must be examined by the diagnosis of zinc deficiency, before taking zinc preparations. Milk is not conducive to the absorption of zinc, so zinc products should not be taken with milk; poor appetite of the baby, serum iron and serum zinc should be done to determine the cause of the disease, symptomatic treatment. Often eat lean meat, fish, eggs, liver, shellfish, walnuts, peanuts and watermelon and other food babies, usually as long as attention to dietary structure, also do not need to supplement zinc; zinc preparations should not be taken on an empty stomach, should be eaten after meals.

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In order to correctly and reasonably take zinc-containing drugs or eat some plus zinc fortified food. Relevant experts pointed out:

1, children zinc supplementation, must be examined and diagnosed as zinc deficiency, before taking zinc preparations. Pediatric daily zinc supplementation for 0.6 ~ 1.5 mg / kg body weight. For children with iron deficiency anemia and rickets, during iron and calcium supplementation, if zinc supplementation is needed, the dose should not be too large; 2, milk is not conducive to zinc absorption, so zinc products should not be taken with milk;

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3, breast-fed infants and young children, generally do not have a deficiency of zinc, so there is no need for zinc supplementation;

4, children with poor appetite, serum iron and zinc serum measurement should be done, to identify the cause of zinc deficiency, and then to the treatment of zinc supplementation. Determination of serum iron and serum zinc, to identify the causes, symptomatic treatment;

5, often eat lean meat, fish, eggs, liver, shellfish, walnuts, peanuts and watermelon and other foods for children, usually as long as attention to the structure of the diet, but also do not have to supplement zinc;

6, zinc preparation should not be taken on an empty stomach, it should be eaten after meals.　

In short, if a child is diagnosed with zinc deficiency, it should also be used under the guidance of a pediatrician, do not blindly abuse zinc-containing drugs.　

When zinc deficiency is not serious, the medicine is better than the food. You should eat more zinc-rich foods such as animal liver, lean meat, egg yolks and fish.

Zinc deficiency can cause lack of appetite, heterophagy, anemia, growth retardation, nutritional dwarfism, and enteropathic telangiectasia.

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The most important thing is to pay attention to the reasonable dietary structure, timely to the baby to add auxiliary food, food supplements is always the best choice, egg yolks, lean meats, fish, animal offal, beans and nuts rich in zinc, from the complementary foods infants can also ingest zinc.