What symptom is infantile zinc poisoning?

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Zinc is an essential nutrient for human beings, but everything has to have a degree, zinc is no exception. If we take a large amount of zinc preparation when we supplement zinc, it may lead to poisoning and damage our health. It is generally believed that a person's intake of zinc is too high, can lead to moderate poisoning. Here is to introduce the baby zinc poisoning what symptoms.

What symptom is infantile zinc poisoning?

First: after poisoning, symptoms will appear very quickly, and the incubation period is only a few minutes or an hour or so. The inner symptoms are gastrointestinal tract, such as gastrointestinal irritation, nausea, continuous vomiting, epigastric pain, burning in the mouth, numbness in the mouth, dizziness and discomfort. Of course, under normal circumstances, it will not make the body temperature rise, even sometimes it will make the body temperature drop.

Second: if the serious poisoning phenomenon, it is likely to lead to severe vomiting and diarrhea symptoms, and may even lead to physical collapse. Generally speaking, the symptoms of zinc poisoning come quickly, but the course of disease is relatively short, now a few hours or a day or so can recover.

Third: the baby after zinc poisoning may also have other physical reactions, this reaction is generally in the child after eating salts containing zinc. For example, it can cause digestive tract erosion, lip swelling, vocal cord swelling, body convulsions, electrolyte disorders, blood pressure rise, shortness of breath, mydriasis, shock, etc. If it contains liquid zinc leakage and is mistakenly inhaled to cause poisoning, or because it inhales a large amount of zinc gas, dust, etc., it can cause bleeding and chronic zinc poisoning, but this phenomenon is generally rare.

matters needing attention

1. About the baby zinc poisoning what symptoms are simply introduced here. When this problem occurs, be sure to let the child rest properly, keep the temperature, drink a lot of water, also can drink brown sugar water, for children with high fever, can take analgesic and antipyretic drugs. 2. Generally, mild zinc poisoning does not need special treatment and can recover by itself. For children poisoned by inhalation of leaked industrial liquid or gaseous zinc, they must be sent to the doctor for rescue at the first time.