Symptoms of zinc deficiency in three-year-old babies

Nowadays, the issue that parents are most concerned about is whether their baby is healthy. Once a child has trouble eating, everyone will wonder what the cause is. It is said that babies who lack zinc will not like to eat and will be picky about food, and it can also affect the child's growth and development. Therefore, parents will take their babies to the hospital for a check-up every once in a while to see if the baby is zinc deficient. What are the symptoms of zinc deficiency in a three-year-old baby? Let us introduce them in detail below.

1. Loss of appetite. Children generally eat less, and some even feel no sense of hunger and do not actively eat.

2. Eat strange things. For example, biting nails, clothes, chewing toys, hard objects, eating hair, paper scraps, raw rice, wall dust, dirt, sand and stones, etc.

3. Not growing tall. For babies under one year old, since they do not have the ability to express themselves, parental observation is very important. Children's height growth peaks within one year old. They will grow at least 2-3 cm every month. In the first six months, they may even grow 4-5 cm every month. Therefore, parents can preliminarily determine whether there is a zinc deficiency problem by monitoring their children's height.

4. Hair grows slowly. This is something parents often overlook. For example, some children do not need to take care of their hair for half a year, which is most likely caused by zinc deficiency.

5. White spots appear on the nails, hangnails grow on the fingers, and geographic tongue appears (irregular red and white patterns on the surface of the tongue).

6. Particularly susceptible to viral infection. For example, frequent colds and fevers, repeated respiratory tract infections such as tonsillitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, spontaneous sweating, night sweats during sleep, etc.

7. Recurrent oral ulcers.

However, a single symptom cannot be used as a criterion for judgment. Whether a child is zinc deficient requires comprehensive consideration. For example, poor appetite does not necessarily mean zinc deficiency, because this type of anorexia may also be anorexia nervosa. Only when it is accompanied by other symptoms, it may be zinc deficiency, and you should go to the hospital for examination in time.

8. Hyperactivity, slow reaction, lack of concentration and poor learning ability.

The above phenomena are all manifestations of zinc deficiency in 3-year-old babies. I hope parents will pay attention to the baby’s physical condition after understanding them. Once the above points appear, try to take the baby to the hospital for examination. Zinc deficiency can be supplemented faster in the earliest case. If your child is zinc deficient, try to feed him with food instead of giving him any medicine. Only by increasing food and nutrition can the baby be healthier.