What symptom does 7-year-old girl lack zinc

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Zinc is one of the essential trace elements for our human body. Due to its outstanding contribution to human sexual function and germ cells, it is known as "spark of life" and "marriage harmony element". But in many cases, due to various reasons, many friends will lack zinc, so many friends want to know about it. Now I would like to share with you the causes of zinc deficiency and the performance of zinc deficiency, as well as how to supplement zinc.

What symptom does 7-year-old girl lack zinc

First: slow growth and development: zinc is one of the trace elements necessary for human metabolism and growth and development. Lack of zinc will affect cell metabolism and hinder the function of growth hormone axis. Baby's growth and development (height and weight above) will be affected. Specific performance may be: 3-6cm lower than the height of children of the same age, weight is also light 2-3kg.

Second: recurrent oral ulcers: zinc deficiency in the baby's mouth often ulcers. The baby's tongue coating appears a piece of tongue mucosa peeling, showing a map like, so it is also known as the map tongue (the tongue surface has irregular red and white graphics).

Third: anorexia: the main performance for the baby does not like to eat, picky, and even eat different. Moreover, the function of baby's tongue mucosa will also be affected due to zinc deficiency, resulting in the decline of baby's taste sensitivity, so that the baby will be more prone to anorexia. The baby will not have any sense of hunger, will not take the initiative to eat. Some even have pica, that is, they like to eat disorderly things, such as biting nails, clothes, toys, hard things, eating hair, scraps of paper, raw rice, wall ashes, soil, sand and stone.

matters needing attention

In China, cereal is the main dietary food for most Chinese people. However, the bioavailability of zinc in cereal is very low, only 15-30%. At the same time, if children eat too much refined food, it will lead to excessive loss of zinc content, which is more likely to lead to zinc deficiency in the body; in addition, a large number of agricultural fertilizers are used in our country when planting land, which greatly inhibits the production of zinc in plants, leading to a general lack of zinc in the growing food.