How do you know if your baby is zinc deficient?

We all know that zinc deficiency in babies is a very serious condition. Once zinc is deficient, it will have adverse effects on the normal development of our baby's body. There are many ways to treat zinc deficiency in babies, but we need to know in advance that the baby is zinc deficient. So how do we know that the baby is zinc deficient? Let us learn about the related issues of how we can know if the baby is zinc deficient.

1. If the baby is zinc deficient, it will cause loss of appetite, slow bone development, late maturity, low density, dull sense of smell and taste, incomplete development of sexual function, and will also affect the development of the baby's ability to sit, stand, crawl, walk and other movements, and will also reduce the baby's immunity. Zinc deficiency can cause babies to sometimes like to eat things that they cannot eat, such as soil.

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 infants 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, with at least 2-3 cm growth every month. In the first six months, they may even grow 4-5 cm per month. Therefore, parents can make a preliminary judgment on whether there is a zinc deficiency problem by monitoring their children's height.

4. Hair grows slowly. This is something that 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. Hyperactivity, slow reaction, lack of concentration and poor learning ability.

7. 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.

8. Recurrent oral ulcers.

The above has introduced to us how to know if the baby is zinc deficient. In relevant situations, I believe everyone has a clearer understanding of this. When we find out that our baby is zinc deficient, we must use reasonable methods to supplement zinc as soon as possible. We can use diet therapy and eat more zinc-rich foods.