How to supplement iron for baby

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Iron is an indispensable trace element for a baby's healthy growth. Many mothers think that egg yolk, red dates, spinach and other foods have high iron content and can supplement iron. In fact, this is a misunderstanding. If these are taken as the first choice to supplement iron for a baby, it is easy to cause iron deficiency anemia. Let's take a look at the following.

How to supplement iron for baby

First: egg yolk is the best complementary food for iron supplement - the iron content in egg yolk is about 7Mg / 100g, and the iron absorption rate is low, so it can not be used as the first complementary food for iron supplement. However, egg yolk is rich in a variety of nutrients, and the raw materials are easy to get. For infants, it is still a high-quality complementary food with good quality and low price. However, it should be noted that egg yolk is easy to cause allergy. If egg yolk allergy is found, it can be postponed to 8 months old or even 1 year old.

Second: spinach and jujube are the first choice for iron supplement - to evaluate whether a certain food is a good food to supplement a certain nutrient, we should not only consider the content of a certain nutrient in the food, but also consider the absorption rate of a certain nutrient in the food. Iron exists in food in the form of non heme iron (trivalent iron) and heme iron (bivalent iron), usually mainly in trivalent iron. Bivalent iron only exists in animal liver, animal whole blood, livestock meat and other foods. Divalent iron is not affected by other dietary factors, the absorption rate is higher, about more than 20%, while trivalent iron is easily affected by other dietary factors (such as phytic acid and oxalic acid in grains and vegetables, polyphenols in tea and coffee, etc.) and the absorption rate is lower, 1% - 05%. The iron in green leafy vegetables belongs to trivalent iron and its absorption rate is low. Therefore, spinach and other green leafy vegetables are not the best food to supplement iron. Similarly, the absorption rate of iron in dried jujube is also low, so it can not be used as the first choice for iron supplement.

Third: drinking milk and eating dairy products are easy to lead to iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia - this misunderstanding involves a common sense of nutrition: when there are nutritional problems, we should not simply be responsible for certain foods, but find out the reasons from the diet structure. Milk is rich in calcium, iron content is really small, so formula milk will be based on milk to supplement and adjust some nutrients. If the intake of milk and dairy products, at the same time, intake of other iron rich foods, such as animal liver, animal whole blood, livestock meat, etc., will not lead to iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia.

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If the intake of milk and dairy products is accompanied by a serious deficiency of iron containing foods, the risk of iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia will increase. But it's obviously not the milk and dairy products' fault.