Symptoms of zinc deficiency in nine-month-old babies

In life, our daily eating habits often lead to the neglect of zinc. We usually mainly eat rice and pasta, and these two things are low in zinc. The vegetables we usually eat will also lose zinc when fried at high temperatures. Currently, the foods with the highest zinc content are animal liver and seafood, and children generally eat less of these. Therefore, babies are often prone to zinc deficiency. The following specifically introduces the symptoms of zinc deficiency in nine-month-old babies.

Children are picky eaters, have partial eating habits, have anorexia, eat less, have no sense of hunger, and do not eat on their own initiative.

2. Pica

Children like to bite clothes, hair, nails, hard objects, toys, paper scraps, raw rice, dirt, etc.

3. Poor growth and development, intellectual retardation

The child is short and thin, and his height, weight and intellectual development are not as good as those of his peers.

4. Reduced immunity

Children have poor physical constitutions, often catch colds and fevers, have repeated respiratory infections that are difficult to recover from, and are prone to spontaneous sweating and night sweats.

5. White spots on nails

Children have white spots on their nails and hangnails on their fingers; irregular red and white patterns appear on the surface of their tongue.

6. Difficulty concentrating

Children have symptoms of hyperactivity, slow reaction, poor concentration, and poor learning ability.

7. Decreased vision

Children's night blindness, myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and other vision problems.

Children's traumatic wounds heal slowly; skin problems such as dermatitis, stubborn eczema, oral ulcers, and adolescent acne recur.

9. Delayed development of the reproductive system during puberty

Women's breasts develop slowly, their menarche is late, and pubic hair appears late; men's testicles and penis are small and their sexual function is poor.

What should nine-month-old babies eat to supplement zinc?

1. Lean meat and mussel porridge

Ingredients: 10 grams each of clams and scallops, 50 grams of lean pork, 100 grams of rice, and appropriate amounts of green onion, ginger, and salt.

Preparation method:

1. Wash the clams and scallops, soak them in water for 12 hours and set aside; wash the lean pork and chop it; wash the rice and soak it in clean water for 1 hour and drain.

2. Wash and mince the green onion and ginger, then mix them into the lean pork and mix well.

3. After heating the pot, add appropriate amount of water and bring to a boil. Add mussels, scallops, lean pork and rice and cook together. After the rice is cooked, add salt to season it into porridge.

Ingredients: Enoki mushrooms, rapeseed, ham, ginger, water starch, peanut oil, salt, oyster sauce.

Preparation method:

1. Wash and remove the roots of the enoki mushrooms; wash and pick the rapeseed; cut the ham and ginger into shreds for later use.

2. Heat water in a pot, add salt, oil and rapeseed, blanch until just cooked and remove from the pot.

3. Heat oil in a pan, pour in shredded ginger and stir-fry until fragrant. Then pour in the enoki mushrooms and ham and stir-fry, then add salt and oyster sauce and stir-fry until cooked.

4. Pour in water starch, add rapeseed and stir-fry until cooked.

Three-spice lettuce

Ingredients: lettuce, peanut oil, salt, onion, and pepper.

Preparation method:

1. Wash and peel the lettuce, and cut it into equal long strips.

2. Add water to a hot pot, put in the lettuce after the water boils, bring to a boil over high heat and then turn off the heat. Put it in a container filled with cold water to rinse, take it out and put it on a plate, sprinkle a little salt and water to marinate. Wash and cut the green onions into shreds and add them to the lettuce.

3. Heat the pan, pour in oil, heat to about 80 degrees, add peppercorns, wait until the peppercorns turn black, remove them, and pour the oil into the arranged lettuce.