What are the symptoms of vitamin E deficiency in children?

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? Vitamin E is an important kind of trace elements, if children lack vitamin E, it will form children's vitamin E deficiency disease, will harm the health of patients, easy to cause complications, such as hemolytic anemia, spinocerebellar disease, etc., to early find the disease symptoms for treatment, then what are the symptoms of children's vitamin E deficiency disease? Now let's talk about it.

What are the symptoms of vitamin E deficiency in children?

Neurological changes, progressive neuropathy and retinopathy. Spinocerebellar ataxia with loss of deep tendon reflex, trunk and limbs ataxia, loss of vibration and position sensation, ophthalmoplegia, visual field disorder, retinopathy, also known as posterior lens fibrous tissue formation, muscle weakness, ptosis and dysarthria, have adverse effects on children's cognitive ability and motor development.

Anemia mostly occurs in premature infants whose birth weight is less than l500g. Hemolytic anemia usually occurs in 4-6 weeks. Hemolysis can be stopped after taking vitamin E orally. Systemic edema is mainly in the lower limbs. Premature infants are prone to scleredema neonatorum, which can be relieved after 3 days of vitamin E.

Intracranial and visceral hemorrhage is lack of vitamin E during pregnancy, the possibility of neonatal intracranial and visceral hemorrhage is greater, some cases of neonatal intraventricular and subependymal hemorrhage can be improved after taking vitamin E.

matters needing attention

After finding that the patient has the symptoms of vitamin E deficiency in children, take the child to the hospital for examination. The main items of examination are blood examination. During the examination, red blood cell hemolysis test, low plasma vitamin E level, bone marrow picture, vitamin E determination of red blood cells, etc. the disease can be diagnosed through examination, and the patient can also take timely treatment.