What should I do if my baby is one and a half years old and lacks zinc?

Zinc deficiency is a common disease in children when they are young. Zinc deficiency is very harmful to children. If a child is zinc deficient, the child's hair may turn seriously yellow. In addition to yellowing, there may also be a phenomenon of poor diet. If the child does not eat well, the body will gradually lose weight, and the child's resistance will gradually weaken, thus infecting many diseases. So what should I do if my baby is zinc deficient when he is one and a half years old?

Zinc deficiency in babies is a common phenomenon nowadays. Once a child suffers from zinc deficiency for a long time, it will cause malnutrition and affect future development. Therefore, parents should be reminded that if their children are zinc deficient, they must supplement zinc in time to avoid affecting their children's future development.

What should I do if my baby is zinc deficient? We have always advocated breastfeeding, not only because breast milk is rich in nutrients, many of which cannot be replaced by milk or milk powder, but also because these nutrients are easier for babies to absorb than milk and milk powder. The zinc content in breast milk is almost the same as that in cow's milk, but the absorption rate of zinc in breast milk is much higher than that in cow's milk. Therefore, unless breastfeeding is really impossible, mothers are advised to breastfeed for the healthy development of their babies.

If a breastfed child is zinc deficient, the mother can increase the zinc content in breast milk by eating more foods high in zinc. This way, the baby can also get more zinc by sucking breast milk.

As the baby grows older, simple milk feeding can no longer meet the needs of growth, and complementary foods need to be added. Compared with vegetarian foods such as vegetables, meat and other non-vegetarian foods contain more zinc and are more easily absorbed by the human body. Therefore, when considering the types of complementary foods, you should not only choose vegetables, but also more meat foods, such as egg yolk paste, liver paste, lean meat paste, etc.

Choose 50 grams of lean shredded pork, note that it is shredded pork, soak it in boiling water until the shredded pork turns white and is half cooked, then take it out and dry it. Then, prepare 50 grams of millet and cook it into porridge in a pot. 8 When it is cooked, pour the shredded pork in and cook together. Once the shredded meat is thoroughly cooked, you can feed it to your baby. This method is very practical for supplementing zinc for babies around one year old.

When your baby is zinc deficient, you must use the correct method to supplement zinc for your child, and avoid giving your child zinc supplements indiscriminately. Some medicines are not suitable for children. It is best to use food improvement methods to supplement zinc for your child. There are too many foods containing zinc, and using food to supplement zinc for your child will not harm your child's body. You can also give your child zinc gluconate oral solution for treatment.