What are the symptoms of zinc deficiency in children?

Maybe many of us don’t have a clear understanding of the symptoms of zinc deficiency in children. When our children show some abnormal behaviors, they may have symptoms of zinc deficiency. However, our parents and friends have missed the best time for treatment because they don’t understand it well. It is very important to understand in advance the symptoms of zinc deficiency in children. Let us learn about the related issues of what symptoms of zinc deficiency in children will have.

(1) Anorexia. When zinc is deficient, the taste buds function decreases, the sense of taste is reduced, the appetite is poor, the food intake is reduced, and the digestive ability is also weakened;

(2) Growth and development are delayed. Zinc deficiency hinders protein synthesis and causes reduced food intake, affecting growth and development. In severe cases, it may cause dwarfism. (3) Pica.

(4) Susceptible to infection. People who are zinc deficient have reduced immune function and are susceptible to various infectious diseases, including diarrhea;

(5) Skin and mucous membrane symptoms When zinc deficiency is severe, the skin of the whole body may have various rashes, bullous dermatitis, recurrent oral ulcers, long-term unhealed lower limb ulcers, and baldness of varying degrees.

(6) Zinc deficiency in adults can cause loss of appetite, decreased appetite, abnormal taste, frequent preference for eating potatoes, beans and even paper, pica, rough skin and even inexplicable acne, slow wound healing, inflammation of the extremities, susceptibility to colds, irregular menstruation, and zinc deficiency can also cause bone abnormalities, manifested as inflammatory changes in the lower limb joints. If a pregnant woman is zinc deficient, it can even cause fetal malformations. When the human body is zinc deficient, the zinc content in many organs and blood of the human body decreases, and even the zinc content in the hair decreases. Therefore, the zinc content in the hair can be one of the criteria for judging whether there is zinc deficiency.

(7) Increased pregnancy reactions: acidophilus and vomiting. Increased intrauterine fetal growth retardation: leading to an increase in premature and low-birth-weight babies. Increased complications of delivery: prolonged labor, miscarriage, premature birth, increased fetal malformation rate: malformations of the central nervous system of the brain. Zinc is involved in the synthesis and activity of many enzymes in the body, such as carbonic anhydrase, DNA polymerase, and RNA polymerase, and is also closely related to the synthesis of many nucleic acids and proteins. If the body is adequately supplied with zinc, the anabolism of cystine, methionine, glutathione, endocrine hormones, etc. can proceed normally. Therefore, it can maintain the metabolism of the central nervous system and bone metabolism, and ensure and promote the normal growth of children's physical size (such as height, weight, head circumference, chest circumference, etc.), brain development, sexual characteristics development and sexual maturity.

The above content introduces us to the relevant issues of what are the symptoms of zinc deficiency in children. I believe that everyone must have a clearer understanding this time. This problem cannot be taken lightly, otherwise the harm to our children's bodies will be very great. Zinc deficiency must be supplemented as soon as possible. This is not a big problem and needs to be taken seriously by each of us.