What should I do if my child is a little anemic?

Anemia is becoming more and more common, especially among women. However, some children are always anemic, so they often cannot concentrate on their studies. Although anemia is very common, anemia in children must not be ignored. After all, children are in the developmental period, and any deficiency will affect the normal development of the child. So let us now look at what solutions are there for children with anemia.

The most common anemia in children is iron deficiency anemia. This is because:

(l) Children are born with insufficient iron storage. The iron that a normal full-term newborn obtains from the mother is sufficient for its hematopoietic needs for 3 to 4 months after birth. However, premature birth, twins, fetal blood loss and maternal iron deficiency anemia can all lead to insufficient iron storage in children.

(2) People do not consume enough iron. The diet of newborns mainly consists of human milk or cow's milk, and the iron content in both human milk and cow's milk is low. If they are fed only with milk without adding iron-rich complementary foods in time, anemia is likely to occur.

(3) Growth and development decisions. Growth and development are rapid during infancy. At 3 to 5 months, the baby's weight is twice that of his birth weight, and at 1 year old, it is three times his birth weight. If the baby is premature, the weight gain is faster. As body weight increases, blood volume also increases rapidly, making iron deficiency more likely to occur, leading to anemia.

(4) Excessive iron loss. Normal infants excrete more iron every day than adults, and lose relatively more iron through the skin. If they are allergic to protein and have small intestinal bleeding, they lose even more iron. In addition, some diseases such as chronic diarrhea, intussusception, intestinal polyps, etc. can increase iron consumption and cause anemia.

Generally, babies will have anemia at this stage.

Red dates and black rice porridge, careful parents give their children a "blood-replenishing vegetable"

Nowadays, iron deficiency anemia in children has become another new disease of affluence among children besides obesity and myopia. Doctors point out that unreasonable diet structure, picky eating and partial eating are important causes of children suffering from iron deficiency anemia.

Doctors say that apart from a few children suffering from congenital physical conditions, the main cause of iron deficiency anemia is related to their daily diet and lifestyle habits. Many children like to drink yogurt and eat chocolate after waking up. Some children drink frozen milk and eat fruits on an empty stomach early in the morning. Some parents do not have the habit of eating breakfast themselves, so their children often skip breakfast. Children who go to bed late and get up early with their parents do not have time to have a good breakfast every day, and they will suffer from iron deficiency anemia in the long run.

If adolescents with iron deficiency anemia do not supplement iron in time, they may experience symptoms such as decreased physical strength, decreased memory, and decreased cellular immunity, which can easily induce colds and tracheitis.

Eat the porridge directly, peel and core the red dates and feed them to the baby. Eat red dates twice a week, too much will cause internal heat. Soak the chicken liver in clean water for an hour, then steam it in rice. After it is cooked, mash it into a paste and feed it to your baby. For chicken stewed with shiitake mushrooms, you can feed some chicken puree and shiitake mushrooms. Black fungus is also fine. When making crucian carp soup or fish paste, make sure all the bones are picked out. Chop the lean meat into paste and boil it into soup, then use the soup to stew eggs. Eggs stewed in shrimp paste soup are also easy to absorb. Also, I use an iron pot to cook for my baby. Rice noodles also contain calcium, iron and zinc.

It is not a difficult problem to solve if a child has a little anemia. I hope you can follow the methods mentioned above. At the same time, remember to take your children to exercise outdoors more often to enhance their heart rate. When their bodies are strong, the anemia will slowly disappear. That’s all I can tell you today. If you have any other questions, you can check it out online yourself.