The most common causes of children's iron deficiency anemia are various: one is that children grow too fast, their blood volume increases too fast, and they need to produce more red blood cells. The demand for iron is relatively higher than that of adults, so they are prone to iron deficiency due to insufficient supply, and the other is that children's iron intake is insufficient during their growth and development, which is also the most common cause of children's iron deficiency anemia, which can be divided into many situations:
1. Improper feeding in infancy. For babies, the iron content of human milk and milk is very low. If you simply eat milk or milk with rice soup, instead of starting to eat juice, egg yolk and broken vegetables in 3~4 months, porridge and noodles in 5~6 months, and minced meat and pork liver sauce in 9~ 10 months, you will be prone to iron deficiency. The fatter a child is, the easier it is to lack iron.
2, children's partial eclipse or improper food mix. Because the iron content or absorption rate of milk and eggs is not high, if children only eat milk and eggs, but not vegetables, pork liver, lean meat and so on. It will also cause iron deficiency. In addition, in terms of diet, if children seldom eat meat or prefer to eat fat meat and like snacks, children who eat less dinner are also prone to iron deficiency anemia.
3. Children who often drink tea, coffee, cola and chocolate will hinder the absorption of iron in the gastrointestinal tract and easily cause anemia due to iron deficiency.
4, suffering from recessive hemorrhagic disease. For example, children often have nosebleeds, sores and bleeding, or diseases that are easy to cause recessive blood loss, such as ulcerative colitis, intestinal polyps, hookworm disease, etc., which are easy to cause excessive iron loss and anemia.
In addition, children often have diarrhea or other gastrointestinal diseases, which will inevitably affect iron intake, and iron deficiency anemia may also occur. Usually pay attention to children's diet, reasonable collocation, and stress nutrition. In infancy, various complementary foods should be added in time according to the growth stage, and children's partial eclipse should be corrected, and the reasonable diet should be paid attention to. Eating more foods with high iron content, such as black fungus, lean meat, liver, green leafy vegetables, fruits, etc., also helps to absorb iron. Because the iron stored in premature infants is less than that in full-term infants, they grow faster after birth and are more prone to iron deficiency. More attention should be paid to adding iron-rich foods as soon as possible to prevent iron deficiency anemia.
In many people's minds, anemia is a "poor disease". Now that everyone's living conditions are good, how can children be anaemic? But in fact, the proportion of anemia children in pediatric clinics in big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai is still very high. According to the investigation of Changzheng Central Kindergarten in Putuo District, Shanghai, among the 39 frail children in this kindergarten/KLOC-0, 36 are anemic children, and the "epidemic probability" is second only to recurrent respiratory infections (48 children). Let's take a look at the comprehensive analysis of the new situation of anemia by experts!
It is said that children nowadays are blessed. They have a place to buy what they want, and their parents have money to buy it. The only child is at home, just like a "little sun", and the whole family revolves around him: it doesn't matter whether the busy parents cook or not, and all kinds of convenient foods are available; There is foreign fast food not far from the door, where the dining atmosphere and food taste can make children like it; As for cream cakes, children can eat them whenever they want, so why wait until their birthdays? Not only are there many kinds of snacks, but they are also supplied in time at home, so that children can help themselves. However, many children who usually eat well find anemia in the hospital. This makes parents feel confused: "Eating" and "drinking" are all high-grade, how can children get "poor disease"? Anemia is very common, and the cause has changed. Why do "milk dolls" who drink milk, eat cream cakes, clamor for yogurt milkshakes and destroy ice cream all day, and deal with "milk" also find iron deficiency anemia? Although milk and dairy products are good sources of high-quality protein and calcium, the iron content in milk is very low, with only 0. 1-0.5 mg of iron per 100 ml of milk. Children need 12mg of iron every day. Even if the child's stomach is full of all kinds of dairy products, it is still far from enough for the body. What's more, with the sugar in dairy products, children are full if they don't eat seriously. This kind of anemia caused by partial eclipse is also called "anemia".
Prevention method: correct the bad habit of partial eclipse, and the child's diet should be wider. In particular, let children eat more iron-rich foods, such as spinach, bean products, black fungus, animal hearts and livers.
"Great young poverty"
This is a veritable "egg baby". Eggs are babies' favorite. Eat at least three or four eggs a day, even if you are full, it tastes like eggs. When "Egg Baby" sees green leafy vegetables, he either doesn't eat them or doesn't swallow them in his mouth, and he vomits as soon as he smacks them. Parents wonder why such a "high-protein" diet is not rosy. When they go to the hospital for examination, they really find anemia, which is called "giant young and poor".
Nutritional megaloblastic anemia (referred to as megaloblastic anemia) is not a lack of iron as a hematopoietic raw material. This anemia is caused by eating less fresh vegetables and fruits and lacking folic acid. If a child lacks folic acid, the red blood cells in the bone marrow will not mature, which will lead to large and naive red blood cells released into the blood. This kind of red blood cells will age before they are old, and their life span will be short, so that children will have "great youth poverty." It can be seen that "high protein # good nutrition" and "good nutrition" refer to the balanced and moderate intake of omnivores.
Prevention methods:
Let children eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, especially foods rich in folic acid, such as beans, green leafy vegetables, whole wheat bread, coarse grains and oranges.
"Gastropathy" anemia
The father of the child is an "old stomach trouble". The child is only 6 years old and has been diagnosed with stomach trouble. The doctor said that children's anemia is mainly stomach trouble, which is not well absorbed. As for "stomach trouble", it is "infection". Does the baby also have "gastrointestinal discomfort"? Can "gastrointestinal discomfort" be contagious? It sounds fresh, but it's true. One kind of bacteria enters the human body through the oral cavity and settles near the pylorus of the stomach (the junction between the stomach and duodenum is called pylorus). This kind of bacteria is spiral, so it is called "Helicobacter pylori" (abbreviated as hp), which can cause chronic gastritis and peptic ulcer. Adults have stomach trouble, and it is caused by Helicobacter pylori, which can be transmitted to the baby through "close contact", so that the baby can also be infected with stomach trouble at a very young age. For example, adults chew and feed their children; When a family eats, you take a spoonful of chopsticks and put vegetables in the baby's bowl; A bottle of drink, the adults finish it mouth to mouth, and the children continue to drink. In this way, Helicobacter pylori can find a new owner through saliva. In addition, the bacteria can also spread through feces. Feces with Helicobacter pylori have polluted soil and vegetables. After playing with dirt, babies may eat without washing their hands with soap, drink raw water and eat raw vegetables without washing, or they may "get sick from the mouth".
Prevention methods:
Pay attention to food hygiene, parents can reduce the occurrence of "stomach trouble" by implementing the "separate meal system"; No "stomach trouble", good absorption can reduce the occurrence of anemia.
"hookworm anemia"
Our family pays special attention to food hygiene, but we tested the baby's stool and found hookworm eggs. The doctor said, "The baby's anemia is caused by hookworm infection. The time of infection must be related to your family going out. " To say "hookworm disease" is much less than filariasis and searing fever. Children in northern cities, in particular, have little chance of being infected with hookworm. However, with the change of climate in recent years, the flow of urban people to the countryside has increased, and the family often goes out for an outing in the suburbs to taste early adopters. The situation has changed.
How do people get hookworm infection?
Hookworm eggs enter the soil with feces and hatch into larvae in the soil.
Human skin comes into contact with soil containing larvae → the larvae drill into the skin and enter the blood.
Larvae settle in the intestine, feed on blood and develop into adults.
Even if it is only an adult, it sucks blood and excretes anticoagulant substances, which will also make the adsorbed place drop blood continuously. Adults often change the adsorbed parts, which makes the mask of "little master" "riddled with holes" and causes severe anemia.
Prevention methods:
Go for an outing, but you should tell your children not to walk barefoot in the mud and not to play with it. Go to the "farmhouse" and try it early. Wild vegetables must be cooked.