The harm of picky eating in children Is it zinc deficiency?

Many children become picky eaters because of their parents’ pampering. They will refuse to eat foods they don’t like. Long-term picky eating will cause many harms. So let’s learn about the harms of picky eating in children. Is a picky eater a zinc deficiency?

Hazard 1: Malnutrition. Children are in a period of rapid growth and development. Only adequate nutrition can ensure the healthy growth of children. Once the habit of picky eating occurs, it will lead to insufficient intake of some nutrients, resulting in malnutrition.

Harm 2: Weight and height do not meet the standard. Children's picky eating will lead to insufficient intake of nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, and fat, which will cause the child's weight and height to not meet the standard.

Harm 3: Affecting intellectual development. Children who are picky eaters will have poor concentration and their intellectual development will be lower than that of normal children.

Harm 4: Decreased immunity. Children's picky eating directly affects their immunity, and picky eating leads to unbalanced diet. Children cannot get nutrition from food to improve their immunity, so they are more susceptible to illness and often suffer from upper respiratory tract infections and other diseases.

Children's partial eclipse may be caused by zinc deficiency. If children are zinc deficient, they usually have decreased vision, slow growth and development, decreased immunity and decreased appetite, and will become picky eaters. However, there are other reasons that can cause children to be picky eaters, such as if children have indigestion. If you find that your child has a partial eclipse, you can go to the hospital for a check-up. If it is caused by zinc deficiency, you should pay attention to zinc supplementation in daily life. You can eat more zinc-rich foods, such as nuts, eggs and seafood. If it is caused by indigestion, you can take medicine under the guidance of a doctor to regulate it. Usually, children's diet is light and easy to digest, and they should also drink more water. If it is sudden, it may be that the child does not like to eat because the usual diet is relatively simple. If it is a long-term picky eater, it may be zinc deficiency. Zinc deficiency can cause changes in children's taste, making children picky eaters and not like to eat. You can take Xinbao zinc-selenium tablets, which are suitable for babies under four years old. Protein zinc does not irritate the intestines and is easy to absorb, so it is safer.

A big reason why children don't like to eat is because of bad spleen and stomach. Because spleen and stomach disharmony may be the root cause hidden deep inside, but because the early symptoms are not obvious, it is easy to be ignored by parents, who mistakenly think that the child is picky about food, so they try every means, even coaxing and deceiving, and just think that the child can finish the daily meals and feel at ease, until the appetite continues to deteriorate and other symptoms appear, they understand that the child may have a physical problem. The early symptoms of spleen and stomach disharmony include poor appetite and decreased food intake. Childhood is a time when children's bodies develop rapidly, and it is impossible not to be hungry, so parents should find out the reasons why children don't eat in time until their appetite returns to normal. In addition, if the spleen and stomach are not harmonious, it will cause the child to have dry and watery bowel movements, or even not defecate for several days. Sleep will also be affected, and the child will have poor sleep, sweat easily, and be in low spirits all day. In addition, the child's tongue coating becomes thick and greasy, and the breath becomes heavy. Coughing often, because the spleen is the source of phlegm, if the spleen and stomach are not good for a long time, it is easy to cough for a long time.

Children will imitate their parents to a large extent when eating. If the parents have bad eating habits, the children's eating habits are often not good either. Therefore, if the child is picky about food, you should first check your own eating habits, change those unhealthy, picky eating habits, and set an example for the child. In recent years, there have been several related studies that have found that there are many factors that affect picky eating, including genetic factors, which means that at least some children who are picky eaters have genetic factors, and some children may be born picky eaters. The specific proportion is not clear at present. This genetic factor may work in conjunction with other factors to make the child very difficult to feed.