What to do if a 10-year-old child has anemia

Anemia in a 10-year-old child Anemia in a 10-year-old child can be a headache for most parents. Because children at such a young age should not take too many supplements, as that will have a great impact on their bodies. However, if children do not eat some nourishing foods, their physical condition will deteriorate due to anemia. How can we allow children to supplement certain nutrients without affecting their normal growth and development? Let's discuss this issue together.

Anemia refers to a common clinical symptom in which the red blood cell volume in the human body's peripheral blood is low and below the lower limit of the normal range. Since the measurement of red blood cell volume is complicated, hemoglobin (Hb) concentration is often used instead in clinical practice. Some 10-year-old children show symptoms of anemia, so what should we do? Here are two recipes that can help replenish blood.

1. The ingredients needed for fried toon with tofu are 50 grams of fresh toon and 350 grams of tofu; auxiliary ingredients include 60 grams of peanut oil, and appropriate amounts of soy sauce, salt, sugar, and flour. Its simple preparation method is to cut the tofu into large rectangular pieces, wash the Chinese toon, select the old stems, blanch them with boiling water, then immerse them in cold water to cool, pick them up, drain them, and cut them into minced pieces; add 50 grams of oil in a frying pan and heat them until they are 80% cooked. First, gently slide the tofu down the edge of the pan, fry and shake it, turn it over and fry it on both sides until it turns yellow, then add soy sauce, soup and various seasonings. After cooking, spread the Chinese toon minced pieces on the tofu, thicken it after boiling, drizzle 10 grams of cooking oil, and serve it on a plate. This recipe contains 18.6 grams of protein, 18.0 grams of fat, 360.9 kcal of calories, and 19.4 mg of iron.

2. Sweet and sour sesame meatballs require 50 grams of lean pork, 10 grams of black sesame seeds, 10 grams of eggs, 25 grams of carrots, 5 grams of starch, 15 grams of sugar, 7 grams of vegetable oil, and appropriate amounts of vinegar, soy sauce, onion and ginger water, and pepper water. Its simple preparation method is to chop the pork into meat paste, put it in a bowl, steam the carrots and chop them into paste, mix them with the meat paste, add onion and ginger water, pepper water, salt, soy sauce and egg liquid, stir the wet starch, squeeze into balls, stick them evenly, wash them, and fry the black sesame seeds. Pour oil into the pan, heat it up, put the meatballs in and fry until cooked. This recipe contains 27.6 grams of protein, 25.5 grams of fat, 439.1 kcal of calories, and 6.7 mg of iron.

These two recipes are very effective for anemia in 10-year-old children.

We can cook jujubes and brown sugar in white water, and try to cook the jujubes as soft as possible, so that children can achieve the effect of blood supplement by taking this thing. And most children don’t reject its sweet taste. In many cases in life, we can supplement children with nutrition in this way. If some nutrients are made to taste better, children will be more likely to accept them. A 10-year-old child with anemia can eat some iron-supplementing foods.