What to eat for babies with severe anemia

Anemia is a very common disease. It usually occurs at any age. The elderly and children will suffer from anemia. Especially when children have anemia, everyone must pay attention to it. If the baby's anemia is not improved for a long time, it will affect the baby's intellectual development. In fact, most of the baby's anemia is caused by malnutrition. In general, what should babies with severe anemia eat?

What should babies with severe anemia eat?

1. Supplement iron-containing foods, such as iron-fortified infant formula, iron-containing rice flakes or iron-containing vitamin drops, etc. At the same time, you should also supplement with foods rich in vitamin C, such as tomato juice, vegetable puree, etc., to enhance iron absorption. In addition, when the baby starts eating solid food, he should also be fed more foods containing high levels of iron, such as egg yolks, rice porridge, vegetable porridge, etc., but sugar should be avoided because it will hinder the absorption of iron.

2. Always pay attention to your baby's physical condition. If necessary, conduct a hemoglobin test on your baby, because babies with mild anemia cannot show it from the outside. If the baby's hemoglobin is too low, it means that he has anemia and he should supplement iron in time and eat foods high in iron.

3. Regarding the addition of iron-fortified diet, full-term infants should start from 4-6 months (no later than 6 months), and premature infants and low-birth-weight infants should start from 3 months. The simplest method is to add ferrous sulfate to milk or complementary food. For breast-fed infants, add 1-2 servings of iron-containing cereals per day. Ferrous sulfate drops can also be used alternately. The dosage of pure iron for full-term infants should not exceed 1 mg/kg/day (2.5% FeSO4 0.2 ml/kg/day), and for premature infants it should not exceed 2 mg/kg·d. The maximum total daily dose is 15 mg, and ultrasound should not be used for a maximum of 1 month for home use to avoid iron poisoning.

4. If bottle-fed babies are fed milk without iron after 6 months, the total amount should not exceed 750 ml, otherwise the intake of iron-containing diet will be squeezed out.

5. For children and adults, it is best to add 13-16 mg of iron to each pound of flour. The diet in rural my country is mainly based on cereals and starches. Hookworm disease is prevalent in some places and must be taken seriously. At the same time, attention should be paid to increasing the meat diet as much as possible, because even if iron is added to cereals, the absorption amount is not as good as that of meat products.