Friday, July 10, 2009

Do not forget to zinc to children in summer


Zinc deficiency of children in summer high season, for three reasons, first, high temperature, sweating and more children, the body with the sweat from Zinc can constantly lost; Second, the hot weather, children, poor appetite, resulting in reduced zinc intake; c summer children's susceptibility to gastrointestinal disease, most common is diarrhea, may also result in the loss of zinc in vivo. According to statistics, during the summer months a small clinic patients, the incidence of low zinc as high as 60%. Therefore, the summer should be noted that zinc supplementation to children.
Human needs is the zinc intake from food. The amount of zinc more seafood, including oysters in the most abundant zinc. Animal food than the zinc content of plant food high, and decomposition of animal protein produced by the amino acids can promote the absorption of zinc, the absorption rate of about 50%; by zinc and plant food, can be combined with the cellulose compounds do not dissolve in water, thus impeding the human absorption, the absorption rate of only about 20%; one animal liver, lean meat, egg yolk are rich in zinc. Plant food in a kelp, laver highest zinc.


Parents should encourage children to eat these foods, and to develop the children do not develop a particular kind of food, not being choosy food, grain size with a reasonable diet. Drugs should be completed under the guidance of a doctor to give zinc sulfate or zinc gluconate syrup and other preparations, the general agent for 2 to 4 months after the normal review should be timely withdrawal. Need to be careful of is that the effective dose of zinc poisoning dose away with the very small, very easily lead to improper use of excessive, and induce a zinc deficiency, copper, anemia and other diseases. I wish building materials

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