In the process of children's growth, in order to have a healthy body development, but also in order to find those potential diseases as early as possible, many parents will often take their children to do all kinds of physical examination. In the process of checking, I think the parents themselves do not know exactly what items to check, many of them are to listen to the doctor's arrangements. However, in many pediatric examinations, there is a test has been called off by the National Health and Family Planning Commission for several years, if the parents encountered such a test, must learn to refuse, because this test does not have any substantial and scientific basis.
This pediatric test that has been in the family for some years, do not be fooled.
This test, which has been called off for years, is the micronutrient test. In the process of the child's growth, some parents are very worried about the child's body will lack of which elements, which in turn affects the child's growth and development, so in the checkup as soon as you hear can detect the lack of micronutrients, they will be full of joy to go to the checkup. In general, however, trace elements are detected by collecting blood or hair from the child's fingers, which is used for further testing and analysis, and then a series of conclusions are drawn.
(1) Collecting the child's hair for examination;
In the process of examination, the child's hair will be collected first for examination. As we all know, hair is a substance exposed to the outside for a long time, although we often say "body hair", but the hair is exposed to the outside for a long time, and contact with the outside material, which contains trace elements or nutrients, will be changed, and can not reflect the child's physical condition. So this test is almost the same as not doing it.
(2) Blood test;
The blood test sounds like it can reflect the child's physical condition because many diseases are diagnosed by analyzing blood data. However, the data of trace elements in this test is also unreliable, because in the human body, trace elements are stored more in cells and tissues. The blood test, on the other hand, squeezes the tissue fluid from the blood through medical equipment. In this way, the tissues have been destroyed, so there are a series of thousands of differences in the data.
(3) Clamping the child's finger to check;
In some maternal and child stores, or in front of the pharmacy, you will see a lot of advertisements written "free measurement of trace elements", and the method of measurement is also very simple, you only need to clamp the child's finger through a clip, said that this will be able to detect the child's body The method of measurement is also very simple. When you think about it, if you can find out the amount of trace elements in your child's body by this alone, then medical treatment is simply too advanced, so I have to say, this is obviously a scam.
In response to the question of how to test a baby's trace elements, first of all, parents need to be clear about the purpose of giving the baby a trace element test. If the baby already has some disease, such as growth retardation, anemia and other conditions, then in the doctor's advice can do a trace element test. But if the baby eats well and sleeps well, then there is no need, especially like the kind of mother and baby store to clip the finger test, just ignore it.