Friday, February 26, 2010
Guard against infant malnutrition, anemia,
Malnutrition, anemia, by definition refers to the lack of nutrients necessary for blood caused by anemia. Children stage is the period of high incidence of such symptoms, particularly in infants under the age of 3. But her parents often fail to detect in time to give the child's body causing irreparable harm.
Normal human red blood cells filled with hemoglobin, its main ingredient is protein and iron. The child after the birth of the main diet is milk, is generally not easy for the lack of protein, iron is not true, either breast milk or milk products, iron is not high. If the parents do not pay attention in the infant's diet to increase iron content of the material, it prone to iron deficiency anemia. At the same time, if the child a long-term diarrhea, vomiting, loss of appetite, or have chronic illnesses, resulting in increased consumption of iron exhaust, can cause malnutrition, anemia in infants and young children.
Clinically, we always put hemoglobin of 8 ~ 12% g referred to as mild anemia, 6 ~ 8% g to moderate anemia, 6% grams was severe anemia. Mild anemia in children is generally manifested as pale, slightly depressed the spirit of love wrapped around people, loss of appetite, physical weakness, fever, colds, etc. from time to time, parents thought it was more than the child's emotional problems, easily lead to neglect. However, the symptoms of moderate or severe anemia were more obvious in children with face pale, apathetic, irritability, and some children have pica, and often like to eat plaster, coal cinder, matches, paper, foreign bodies, and diarrhea , vomiting, indigestion and other symptoms, accompanied by accelerated pulse and breathing, liver and so increase. Even children with severe heart failure, cardiac enlargement, swollen hands and feet, chest tightness, shortness of breath and other symptoms. Some children suffer a serious setback on the physical mental phenomenon, would have been talking, stop walking, after the illness is impossible. And the hair appeared brown, sparse, no tears when crying, dry stool, tests can be found when the different levels of red blood cell count and hemoglobin decreased, white blood cell and platelet counts are also drastically reduced, which may occur in severe bleeding.
Treatment of malnutrition, anemia is simply to add the corresponding blood substances, namely iron and vitamin B12. General treatment about a week, there will be tangible results, but the medication is not a long-term solution and the most effective of the method, blood supply of basic raw materials from food, it is parents need to keep in mind.
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2/26/2010 03:46:00 AM
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