Your baby doesn’t like to eat? Does your baby always have trouble sleeping at night? 10 months old and still no teeth? Your baby is deficient in vitamins or trace elements! In a survey of 5,000 babies aged 0-6, almost every baby was deficient in at least one nutrient! 27% were deficient in one nutrient; 32% were deficient in more than one nutrient; 41% were suspected of being deficient in a nutrient. Note: These are the five nutrients most likely to be deficient – calcium, iron, zinc, vitamin C, and B vitamins. One-minute self-test for nutrient deficiency Calcium deficiency: sweaty sleep, occipital baldness; sudden awakening and crying at night; late teething and delayed closure of fontanelle. Iron deficiency: iron deficiency is anemia, baby will appear inactive, poor spirit, poor appetite, pale, inattentive, slow reaction, easy diarrhea and other symptoms. Zinc deficiency: loss of appetite, slow growth, low immunity, frequent colds and fevers, repeated respiratory infections, map tongue, hyperactivity, slow reaction. Vitamin C deficiency: bleeding gums, bleeding in other parts of the body, easy to catch a cold, poor wound healing. Easily irritable and slow weight gain. Pale complexion and poor appetite. Hair is dry and easily broken. Vitamin B2 deficiency: keratitis, whitening and erosion at the corners of the mouth, dry and cracked lips, red tongue, enlarged tongue papillae, corneal congestion and photophobia, inflammation in the skin folds such as scrotum and perineum, serious growth retardation. Vitamin A deficiency: dry, flaky, rough skin, trachea, bronchial tubes are susceptible to infection. Dark adaptation ability decreases, and in severe cases becomes night blindness. Nutrient deficiency, prevention is the main focus! Breastfeeding: Breast milk contains all the minerals and trace elements that babies need, so mothers should breastfeed as much as possible. Timely addition of complementary foods: From 4-6 months of age, the nutrients in breast milk or formula are not sufficient to meet the needs of the baby’s growth, so it is necessary to add complementary foods in a timely manner, but still mainly milk (breast milk or formula). Supplementary food is as rich as possible: after adding supplementary food to your baby, you should gradually add all kinds of food to ensure that your baby is fully nourished. Correct your baby’s partiality and pickiness: This is the most important reason for nutrient deficiency, you can make the ingredients your baby doesn’t like into fillings and add them to the meal, and parents must take the lead not to be picky and partiality! If your baby has these conditions, you are advised to make sure to give your baby a timely supplement. In fact, whether children are born sick or not, are in the rapid growth stage of life, healthy dietary nutrition is to grow and prevent disease, and disease comes when you need adequate nutrition to defend against pathogens and overcome disease. Each illness will have an impact on the child’s growth, and if the child is not helped to recover from the illness as soon as possible, the evils of multiple illnesses will be superimposed, and the child will naturally become a sickly physique, followed by a series of problems such as not being able to keep up with development and learning, so early child nutrition intervention can really make a difference! The parents must really care for their children, not just eat and drink well one day! The best way to prevent vitamin a deficiency Pregnant moms should start eating more vitamin a rich foods from pregnancy, and nursing moms should also pay attention to the intake from food, so as to avoid the lack of vitamin a in the body, which indirectly affects the health of the baby. Give your baby more vitamin a rich foods and be careful to include more of these foods in your baby’s recipes. Although plant foods do not contain vitamin a, but plant foods are rich in carotene, which can be converted into vitamin a. Give your baby more green vegetables rich in carotene, carrots, red heart white potatoes, corn and oranges, etc., you can get rich vitamin a. After the baby is born for reasonable feeding, the main reason for lack of vitamin a is mostly improper feeding. Be sure to insist on breastfeeding and don’t give up easily. If the baby is premature or artificially fed, it is more likely to be deficient in vitamin a than normal babies. In the baby’s complementary food stage, give more various flavors of food for the baby to taste, so as to prevent the baby from forming bad habits of picky eating and partial eating. It is important to know that vitamin A deficiency in babies is mostly caused by bad habits such as picky eating, partial eating and anorexia. If the baby suffers from chronic diarrhea or other wasting diseases, it is more likely to be deficient in vitamin a, but if treated in a timely manner it can be avoided in the body. The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot more than just a few of the most popular and popular items in the market. Don’t soak the rice for too long, and don’t wash it with your hands, and try to give your baby less water to eat rice, which will help reduce the loss of vitamin b1. The water temperature should not be too high when panning rice, not to mention scalding with hot water, do not add alkali when cooking porridge, using the cooking method of steaming or boiling will greatly reduce the destruction of vitamin b1. If the baby often eats candy must be corrected as soon as possible, this will not only prevent the baby’s teeth from being damaged, but also prevent the body’s vitamin b1 from being consumed. In the daily dishes, you should make sure to make some foods rich in vitamin b1 for your baby, such as lean meat, soy products, etc. Do not soak the vegetables too much when washing them, and when making soup it is best to wait until the water is boiling before placing the vegetables, and do not cook them for too long, just scald them slightly in boiling water to avoid vitamin b1 being destroyed. Flour as far as possible using the steam or baking method, such as flour into buns, bread, buns, pancakes, less fried pasta, which will make the least loss of vitamin b1. When making fish for baby it is best to hang paste on the surface and not to fry it directly in oil, which will prevent vitamin b1 from being severely damaged. When you give your baby braised or stewed meat or fish, it is best to let your baby eat it with the soup and juice, which will ensure the intake of vitamin b1. Don’t fry or deep fry meat in a hurry, try to fry it, and eggs are best steamed into egg custard or boiled. Vitamin b1 is very easily destroyed in cornmeal, if you make corn flour into corn porridge, nest, or use a pie pan to paste corn cake, you can ensure that the vitamin b1 in food is not destroyed. The wonderful plan to prevent the lack of vitamin b2 Do not let the baby picky and partial food, otherwise it will cause the body lack of vitamin b2, often occurring mouth rotten. The consumption of vitamin b2 will increase in the dry winter and spring seasons or when baby has long-term fever, gastrointestinal disease, diarrhea or indigestion, anorexia, tuberculosis, etc. If under the guidance of the doctor appropriate multivitamin or vitamin b2 supplementation, you can avoid the lack of body. In the diet, pay attention to the combination of coarse and fine grains, meat and vegetables, give the baby more food rich in vitamin b2, and pay attention to let the baby add supplementary food according to the age of the month. Vitamin b2 is very heat resistant, so there is no need to worry too much about losing it when cooking. However, it is particularly sensitive to light, especially ultraviolet light, so do not place this type of food in sunlit areas. If your baby has corns or tongue inflammation, it means that you have not eaten vitamin b2 rich foods for a long time and your body is deficient in this vitamin, so hurry up and replenish it. The body’s requirement for vitamin b2 is sufficient if it is taken from riboflavin-rich foods. If necessary, supplement your baby with vitamin b2 tablets, such as when suffering from xerostomia, or if there are conditions in your baby’s body that tend to deplete vitamin b2, such as chronic diarrhea, gastrointestinal malabsorption or chronic fever, oral vitamin b2 tablets or multivitamin tablets will correct the deficiency under the guidance of your doctor. The best way to prevent vitamin c deficiency Breast milk contains more vitamin c to meet the needs of the baby’s body, eating breast milk baby is generally not prone to vitamin c deficiency, so be sure to insist on breastfeeding. If you’re not able to breastfeed your baby, you can avoid vitamin c deficiency by choosing infant formula, which has a more suitable vitamin c content. After the baby is born, add supplemental foods containing vitamin c according to the age of the baby, such as fruit juice, vegetable juice, fine vegetable puree, coarse vegetable puree, carrot puree and banana puree, apple puree, fresh chopped vegetables and boiled vegetables, etc., and eat fresh fruits at the same time. When eating vegetables and fruits, choose fresh ones, wash and cut them first and cook them right away, the cooking time must be short, pay attention to cover them when cooking, and eat them now and don’t leave them for a long time to minimize the loss of vitamin c. For vitamin c particularly easy to destroy off vegetables, such as carrots, pumpkin, peppers, etc., in cooking first dipped in flour deep-fried, so as to maintain the content of vitamin c, easily absorbed by the intestinal tract. Vegetables that can be eaten raw, such as baby cucumbers and carrots, can be made into salads with various oranges, apples, strawberries, pineapples and other fruits for baby, which will minimize the loss of vitamin c. Radish leaves are high in vitamin c. It is best not to throw them away when cooking, they can be fried hot or made into soup, or blanched and eaten cold, and are a good source of vitamin c intake.