How to supplement zinc and calcium deficiency in children

In life, we are all more concerned about the health of babies, especially the lack of trace elements in children. Many babies suffer from zinc and calcium deficiency. It seems not to be a big problem. In fact, calcium deficiency in babies can easily affect their health. Zinc deficiency can also easily lead to low immunity in the baby's body. Once the immunity is low, the child will easily get sick. Below we will introduce in detail how to correctly supplement children's zinc and calcium deficiencies.

If the baby is diagnosed with calcium deficiency through various examinations, calcium supplements should be taken correctly under the guidance of a doctor. While supplementing calcium, vitamin D should also be supplemented. Parents also need to pay special attention that the more calcium supplementation is not necessarily better; excessive calcium intake by babies not only increases unnecessary burden on the body, but is also one of the causes of kidney stones.

How to take calcium supplements:

1. Time of use: Take within 1 hour before bedtime or after meal for best absorption.

2. Number of times of taking: Taking in divided doses is better for absorption than taking it all at once.

3. Alternating the use of calcium supplements can avoid tolerance and reduced absorption rate.

4. Choice of calcium product dosage form: Choose calcium preparations with high calcium content, good absorption and good taste.

When supplementing calcium, you need to pay attention to dietary factors that affect calcium absorption:

1. Oxalic acid in vegetables: Vegetables such as spinach, wild rice stem, leek, water spinach, celery bamboo shoots, onions, etc. contain oxalic acid, which will affect calcium absorption.

2. Excessive salt intake: When the kidneys excrete excess salt from the body every day, they also consume calcium (26 mg of calcium is consumed for every 1000 mgg of calcium excreted).

3. High fat: The cholesterol in fat will affect the absorption of calcium.

4. High protein: Amino acids, the main components of protein, will affect calcium absorption.

5. Beverages containing carbonated drinks and coffee affect calcium absorption.

Let your child eat foods high in zinc. If a breastfed child is zinc deficient, the mother can increase the zinc content in breast milk by eating more foods high in zinc. This way, the baby can also get more zinc by sucking breast milk.

Remember that blindly supplementing zinc is harmful to children. Too much zinc can cause damage to the liver, and in severe cases, it can cause symptoms of jaundice hepatitis. It will also weaken the immune function. Under the action of magnesium ions, zinc can inhibit the activity of phagocytes and reduce their chemotaxis and bactericidal effects. Under normal circumstances, this effect will be inhibited by serum proteins and calcium ions. Therefore, if people with hypocalcemia and children with rickets take too much zinc, it will lead to damaged immune function and weakened disease resistance.

The above is all the correct information on how to supplement children's zinc and calcium deficiency. I hope that parents of children will have more understanding. Only by using the appropriate methods of calcium and zinc supplementation can children get better calcium and zinc. No matter what vitamins or trace elements are supplemented, they must be supplemented appropriately. Before supplementing the children, they must be checked and supplemented only if they are deficient.