Symptoms of calcium deficiency in 6-year-old children

If a six-year-old child is calcium deficient, the harm is relatively large. At this stage, the child's growth and development should be relatively fast, so a good diet is very important. If calcium deficiency occurs, it will affect bone development, cause the child to become smaller, and have a greater impact on the child's digestive function. It will also have an adverse effect on the child's intelligence level. Let's take a look at the symptoms of calcium deficiency in six-year-old children.

1. Symptoms of calcium deficiency in 6-year-old children

Symptoms of calcium deficiency in babies include picky eating, eating different foods (including sucking fingers), stomatitis, oral ulcers, geographic tongue, poor digestive function; frequent colds and fevers, poor immunity, and decreased disease resistance; sweating after a little exercise; slow growth and development, small body shape, and no effect from frequent calcium supplements; mental retardation, hyperactivity, inattention, decreased memory and reaction; prone to dermatitis (eczema), rough skin, thin and yellow hair, lack of luster; rough nails, corns, white spots, decreased vision, etc.

Babies with calcium deficiency often have difficulty falling asleep, let alone entering a deep sleep. They often wake up suddenly at night and cry incessantly. The baby is irritable and not interested in the surrounding environment. Sometimes parents find that the child is not as lively as before. Moreover, excessive sweating has nothing to do with temperature, especially sweating on the head after falling asleep, which causes the baby's head to constantly rub against the pillow. After a long time, a bald circle can be seen behind the head.

Some children's calcium deficiency manifests itself in delayed teething or uneven, weak teeth, and difficulty chewing hard foods. Teething is irregular and uneven. "Beaded ribs" (i.e., the junction of the ribs and costal cartilage is enlarged like beads) and "chicken bracelets" may appear, and may also be accompanied by eversion of the lower edge of the ribs, and enlargement of the bones in the wrists and ankles, shaped like hands and anklets. After the child walks, he or she develops O-shaped legs or X-shaped legs. In addition, children with calcium deficiency have loose muscles, a bulging abdomen that often resembles a frog's belly, and slow movement and intellectual development.

2. How to supplement calcium for 6-year-old babies

Calcium-rich foods: milk and dairy products, soy products, aquatic products such as dried shrimps, kelp, seaweed, marine fish, egg yolks, sesame seeds, hawthorn, etc.

Spinach, snow vegetable, amaranth, water spinach, bamboo shoots, onions, wild rice stems, edamame, etc. all contain a large amount of oxalic acid, which can easily combine with calcium and affect absorption.

1. Tomato, Potato and Chicken Porridge

Ingredients: rice, chicken breast, potatoes, tomatoes, a little onion and ginger; appropriate amounts of salt, vegetable oil, and MSG.

practice:

1. Chop the chicken breast into fine pieces. Wash and boil the potatoes, peel them and cut them into small dices. Wash and blanch the tomatoes in boiling water, peel them and cut them into small dices.

2. Heat the wok and add vegetable oil. Put the scallion and ginger into the wok, stir-fry until fragrant. Add the minced chicken and stir-fry until cooked. Then stir-fry the diced tomatoes until cooked and mix them with the minced chicken.

3. Put the rice into the pot, add water and cook into porridge, then add the stir-fried minced chicken, diced tomatoes and diced potatoes and continue to simmer for 5 to 10 minutes.

4. After the porridge is cooked, add a little MSG and salt.

The secret to calcium supplementation: In addition to seafood and animal liver, chicken, duck, fish and meat all have high zinc content. This porridge not only tastes good, but also has a good zinc supplement effect.

2. Loofah, shrimp and pork liver soup

Ingredients: 250 grams of loofah, 30 grams of dried shrimps, 50 grams of pork liver, appropriate amounts of chopped green onions and shredded ginger, and a little cooking oil.

practice:

1. Remove the outer edges of the loofah, wash it, peel it in half, cut it into sections, and then remove the pulp; wash and slice the pork liver; soak the dried shrimps in water.

2. Heat up oil in a pan, add shredded ginger and chopped green onion and stir-fry until fragrant. Then add pork liver and stir-fry briefly. Pour in dried shrimps and appropriate amount of water. After boiling, add loofah and simmer for 3 to 5 minutes.