What are the causes of anemia in children?

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The baby is most likely to be anemic after 6 months. The nutrition of anemic baby can't keep up, and it affects the baby's physical quality. Why does the baby have anemia?

What are the causes of anemia in children?

The first reason: the first reason is insufficient production: including nutritional anemia and hematopoietic dysfunction caused by deficiency of hematopoietic substances such as iron, folic acid and vtb12, such as aplastic anemia;

The second reason: the second reason is too much damage: one is congenital hereditary anemia caused by internal defects of red blood cells, such as hereditary spherocytosis, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (also known as faba bean disease) and thalassemia; the other is non hereditary anemia caused by external factors of red blood cells, such as hemolytic disease of the newborn, autoimmune hemolysis and infectious anemia Etc;

Reason 3: Third: most of childhood anemia is caused by malnutrition, the most common are iron deficiency anemia and nutritional megaloblastic anemia (vitamin B12, folic acid deficiency), according to statistics, nearly 40% of school-age children and kindergarten children in China suffer from different degrees of anemia. The doctor explained that exclusive breastfeeding (low iron content in milk, vegetarian mother) and inadequate intake of iron, folic acid and vtb12 caused by not adding complementary food in time are the main causes of nutritional anemia in children; while iron deficiency in premature infants, twins or mothers during pregnancy can cause congenital iron deficiency in infants, coupled with rapid growth and development of infants, increased demand, or the risk of iron deficiency Nutritional anemia can be caused by unreasonable food collocation, chronic diarrhea and repeated infection, which make the absorption of iron, vt12 and folic acid impaired.

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When the mother is pregnant, the iron is not enough, which will make the baby lack of iron at birth. In addition, in the future, gastrointestinal problems (such as dysentery) or abnormal metabolism will affect the iron absorption and lead to anemia.