What to do if your baby is anemic for one week

Anemia in babies is a common disease. There are reasons for this. Many children suffer from this disease since birth. This kind of anemia is also called hereditary anemia. Some children suffer from anemia after being interfered with by parasites. Chronic gastrointestinal inflammation can also cause anemia. One-year-old children may also suffer from anemia. So how to treat anemia in one-week-old children?

1. Treatment of the cause

Treatment of anemia should focus on taking appropriate measures to eliminate the cause. Many times, the primary disease is much more serious than the anemia itself (such as gastrointestinal cancer), and its treatment is more important than anemia. When the cause of the disease is not clearly diagnosed, drugs should not be taken indiscriminately to complicate the situation and increase the difficulty of diagnosis.

2. Drug treatment

Avoid abusing blood-enriching drugs and strictly follow the indications of various drugs. For example, vitamin B12 and folic acid are suitable for the treatment of megaloblastic anemia; iron supplements are only used for iron deficiency anemia and cannot be used for non-iron deficiency anemia because they will cause iron overload and affect the function of important organs (such as the heart, liver, pancreas, etc.); vitamin B6 is used for sideroblastic anemia; corticosteroids are used to treat autoimmune hemolytic anemia; testosterone is used for aplastic anemia, etc.

3. Blood transfusion

The main advantage of blood transfusion is that it can quickly reduce or correct anemia. Therefore, the indications for blood transfusion must be correctly understood. If a large amount of blood transfusion is required, concentrated red blood cells can be transfused to reduce the overload on the cardiovascular system and reduce transfusion reactions.

4. Splenectomy

The spleen is an important organ that destroys blood cells and is also related to the production of antibodies.

5. Bone Marrow Transplantation

Bone marrow transplantation is a new medical technology in recent years. It is still in the research and trial stage. It is mainly used for patients in the early stages of acute aplastic anemia who have never received a blood transfusion or have received very little blood transfusion. If the transplant is successful, the patient may be cured.

If you really have symptoms of anemia, it is recommended to combine Chinese and Western medicine for treatment. Western medicine treatments include vitamin C, folic acid tablets, ferrous sulfate tablets, and Chinese medicine includes compound donkey-hide gelatin, Shengmai Yin, liver essence blood tonic and other qi and blood tonic treatments. After taking them for a period of time, recheck the blood routine results. Generally, it will be normal after a period of conditioning. Don't worry.

Diet therapy

1. Suitable food:

Eat more iron-rich foods, mainly including liver, kidney, heart, gastrointestinal tract, kelp, seaweed, soybean, spinach, celery, rapeseed, tomato, apricot, date, orange, etc. are rich in iron. People also often use longan meat, jujube, and peanuts as blood tonic foods. In order to promote the absorption of iron, you can also eat some acidic foods, such as tomatoes, sour dates, pickled cucumbers, sauerkraut, etc. Vitamin C can help the absorption of iron and also help produce hemoglobin, so the intake of vitamin C must be sufficient.

2. What foods should you avoid if you have anemia?

People with anemia should not drink tea. Drinking more tea will only aggravate the symptoms of anemia. Because the iron in food enters the digestive tract in the form of trivalent colloidal ferric hydroxide. Through the action of gastric juice, high-valent iron is converted into low-valent iron before it can be absorbed. However, tea contains tannic acid, which easily forms insoluble tannic acid iron after drinking, thus hindering the absorption of iron. Secondly, milk and some drugs that neutralize stomach acid will hinder the absorption of iron, so try not to consume them with iron-containing foods.

3. Diet therapy for anemia:

1. Vegetable wrapped liver slices, effect: tonify deficiency and nourish blood. Suitable for anemia caused by deficiency of both qi and blood in gastric cancer. The iron content in pig liver is 14 times that of pork, making it a good ingredient for replenishing the blood.

A one-year-old baby is still very young. It may not be suitable for the child to improve the condition through diet at this time. It is best to let the child drink more brown sugar at this time. Do not underestimate brown sugar water. Brown sugar water also has the effect of treating anemia. The treatment effect is also very good for children. If necessary, the child should be given medication for treatment. During this period, you should check what kind of anemia the child has and then treat it symptomatically.