What to do if your one-year-old baby is anemic

Anemia not only exists in adults, it also exists in many babies. Because many babies nowadays are breastfed, if you suddenly change their food, it will cause anemia in the one-year-old baby. Of course, if there is anemia in a one-year-old baby at home, as parents, you must remain calm and not panic. You must find out if there are some problems in your feeding, and then find out the mistake and solve it. Next, let us learn about the treatment of anemia in one-year-old babies.

Let your baby drink more boiled water to sweat and urinate. You can try Sanjiu Cold Granules for Children, which tastes sweet and should be easy for your baby to accept.

There are many causes of anemia in babies, the most common of which is nutritional anemia. Nutritional anemia is caused by a lack of nutrients such as iron, vitamin B12, folic acid, etc., which are necessary for hematopoiesis. To prevent nutritional anemia, the baby's diet should be properly matched, complementary foods should be added on time, and long-term exclusive breastfeeding should be avoided. For example, animal liver is rich in various nutrients and is the preferred food for preventing nutritional anemia. Egg yolks, pig blood, chicken and duck blood contain high levels of iron, and fresh vegetables and fruits are rich in folic acid. In addition, babies should eat more beans, fungi, whole grains, as well as kelp, seaweed and other foods.

Animal liver: The liver is rich in nutrients. Every 100 grams of pork liver contains 25 mg of iron and is easily absorbed by the human body. To make it easier for children to eat, various animal livers can be made into liver puree, and the liver soup can be added with seasonings and steamed before being fed to children.

2. Egg yolk: Every 100 grams of egg yolk contains 7 mg of iron. Although the absorption rate is only 3%, egg yolk fat is easily digestible and rich in vitamins.

3. Animal blood: The iron utilization rate of pig blood and chicken blood is 12%. Animal blood can be made into blood tofu for consumption.

4. Tofu: Various tofu and its products also contain iron, and can be made into various soft dishes by adding seasonings.

5. Sesame paste: Contains 58 mg of iron per 100 grams. It can be used to make various baby staple foods or added to porridge.

6. Vegetables and fruits: Vegetables and fruits can be made into vegetable and fruit puree, or chopped and boiled until soft before consumption.

Baby anemia is often caused by improper feeding

Experts analyzed that nowadays, many children are found to suffer from iron deficiency anemia clinically. Unlike the anemia of children in the past when materials were scarce, the anemia of children nowadays is mostly not caused by insufficient nutrition, but by unreasonable feeding methods of parents. Most children with anemia have mild symptoms, which can be corrected by dietary supplements.

Generally speaking, babies will experience a period of physiological anemia 1 to 4 months after birth. The reason is that infants and young children grow and develop very quickly and have a great demand for iron. The iron stored in the mother's body when the baby is born is generally consumed 3 months after birth. Breast milk or cow's milk cannot provide enough iron the baby needs, so the baby is prone to physiological anemia.

In addition to the physiological anemia period, some parents fail to add complementary foods to their children in time, which can also lead to insufficient iron intake in their children; or, although a certain amount of iron is consumed, the child's growth and development is too fast, which can also lead to iron deficiency anemia. For some babies who are allergic to milk, long-term drinking of milk may induce chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, leading to anemia.

In addition, some babies do not like to eat green leafy vegetables and animal offal in their diet, and the lack of folic acid and vitamin B12 may lead to cellular nucleic acid metabolism disorders and induce megaloblastic anemia.

Anemia in children is very harmful and should be prevented early

Iron deficiency anemia can lead to intellectual retardation and abnormal behavioral changes in children. Iron deficiency anemia occurring in infancy and childhood can even cause irreversible damage. Therefore, parents should attach great importance to proper feeding of their babies. "First, because the iron in breast milk is easily absorbed by babies, mothers should try to breastfeed. If breastfeeding is not possible, try to choose iron-rich infant formula." Experts remind, "Second, parents should pay attention to adding complementary foods to their babies at the right time and in the right amount when they are 4 to 6 months old."

When a one-year-old baby is anemic, the mother should not just feed him breast milk, but should start with complementary foods, discover and find some foods that can replenish blood, and enhance the resistance and immunity of the one-year-old baby, so that the baby can get sick less and grow up healthily. Of course, when the baby has anemia, diet alone is not enough. Various situations should be mastered, such as taking some blood-replenishing medicines according to the doctor's advice, and giving the baby an appropriate amount but not too much.