Check the trace elements of children

Trace elements are essential to our human body, and if children lack trace elements it will hinder their growth. However, many new mothers do not understand these things due to their lack of experience in taking care of children. Below we will introduce some basic information about checking trace elements in children. I hope you will read it.

Malnutrition not only refers to the obvious lack of food, such as insufficient intake of protein and calories, but also the deficiency of trace elements. Children nowadays generally do not have problems with food deficiency. Most of them lack trace elements such as calcium, iron, zinc, magnesium, copper, etc. ”

These trace elements essential to the human body play an extremely important role in the human body. For example, zinc deficiency can cause children to have decreased appetite, slow growth and development, and poor resistance; iron deficiency can damage children's intellectual development, making infants and young children irritable, indifferent, and lack interest in the things around them, and can also cause children's attention and memory abnormalities; calcium deficiency can cause children to have slow growth and development, bone deformities, and poor tooth development.

Other heavy metal elements such as lead and cadmium can cause great harm to the body even if consumed in low concentrations, especially to children. Trace elements are so important to the human body, so how do we detect trace elements in the body? Currently, many hospitals use hair testing to detect trace elements. However, since the content of trace elements in hair is affected by many factors such as hair cleanliness, hair quality, individual growth and development, and environmental pollution, it cannot well reflect the trace element status in children's bodies. Therefore, blood testing is a more scientific method. Take a drop of blood from the child's finger and use atomic absorption spectroscopy to accurately detect the content of trace elements in the blood.

"However, it should be noted that it is best to be on an empty stomach when testing trace elements, because various nutrients (including trace elements) absorbed through gastrointestinal digestion after a meal enter the blood, and the trace element levels detected at this time cannot truly reflect the body's storage situation." Tai Shuhong said, "After fasting for 3 to 4 hours, the various components in the blood are relatively stable, and the various values ​​measured at this time can more truly reflect the body's condition." In addition, all trace elements have a certain proportion in the human body, so blind supplementation should not be done.

If iron is supplemented blindly, it will cause excessive iron content in the body, which will cause an imbalance in the metabolism of trace elements such as iron, zinc, and copper, thereby reducing the body's immunity and may increase the concentration of iron ions in the serum, which may cause the risk of myocardial damage in children.

The above introduces information about checking trace elements in children. We need to pay attention to the trace elements in children's bodies. If mothers lack experience in taking care of children, they might as well read more books on parenting knowledge. I hope I can help you in your life. I wish you all a happy life.