What to do if your 10-month-old baby has iron deficiency anemia?

There are too many cases of children suffering from iron deficiency anemia. Many babies have a little bit of iron deficiency anemia when they have blood tests. If a ten-month-old baby has iron deficiency anemia, what should you do? Should you give the baby food supplements or medicine supplements? This problem really worries many mothers. Let's talk about what to do if a ten-month-old baby has iron deficiency anemia. Let’s take a look together below.

Foods high in iron include:

1. The iron absorption rate of breast milk is up to 50%

2. The iron absorption rate of lean meat and pork liver is 22%

3. The iron absorption rate of fish and pig blood is 11%

4. The iron absorption rate of milk is 10%

In daily life, care should be strengthened, infection should be prevented, feeding should be improved, iron-rich foods (such as animal blood, lean meat, egg yolk, soy products, etc.) should be appropriately increased, and attention should be paid to dietary matching, such as meat and vegetable matching is conducive to iron absorption. Those with partial eating habits should be corrected. The cause should be checked and eliminated, such as treating intestinal blood loss, deworming hookworms, etc.

Nutritional anemia can generally be cured in 1-2 months as long as it is treated. For mild cases, it can be cured by improving diet. For more serious anemia, in addition to improving diet, iron, vitamin C, vitamin B12, or folic acid can be used for treatment until the anemia is completely corrected, and then it can be used for another 1-3 months.

Eat more lean meat, egg yolks, pork liver, animal offal and other foods rich in iron. You can use iron pots and pans to cook, which can also increase the iron content in the food.

If you have mild iron deficiency anemia, you can eat more foods high in iron, some red dates, some pig blood and pig liver. You should eat more animal liver, egg yolks, animal blood, etc. While supplementing iron, you should also pay attention to eating more fruits containing vitamin C, such as fresh dates, kiwis, oranges, strawberries, and you can also eat more dates, which are all iron and blood supplements.

The above is an introduction to what to do if a ten-month-old baby has iron deficiency anemia. I hope mothers can understand it well. Don’t be anxious and clueless when the baby is diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia. Be sure to supplement iron according to the baby’s condition. If it is mild iron deficiency anemia, just give the baby food supplements, and don’t use drugs indiscriminately.