The highest incidence of iron-deficiency anemia occurs between the ages of 6 months and 2 years.
Children aged 6 months to 2 years begin to add complementary foods, but due to factors such as picky eating and improper nutritional combination of complementary foods, the amount of iron intake from complementary foods is low, and the iron content of mothers’ breast milk decreases, and the growth and development of young children in this age group is rapid, and the demand for iron increases significantly, which results in the daily demand for iron being much higher than the body’s intake of iron.
Therefore, 6 months ~ 2 years old children are the highest incidence of iron deficiency anemia. It should be noted that iron deficiency anemia can occur at any age. In addition to the above age groups, excessive menstruation, pregnant women, and people of advanced age are all at high risk for iron deficiency anemia.
Iron supplementation is the main treatment for iron deficiency anemia, but while supplementing iron, we must actively need to eliminate the causes of iron deficiency in order to avoid recurrence of iron deficiency anemia.