People say that children nowadays are lucky to have a place to buy whatever they want to eat, and their parents have money to buy it. The only child at home, like a “little sun”, the whole family around him around the group. Parents who are too busy to cook at work do not matter, there are all kinds of convenient food; not far from home there is a foreign fast food, where the dining atmosphere and food taste can please children; as for cream cake or something, children want to eat, why wait until the birthday; all kinds of snacks not only a variety, and the family to ensure timely supply, let the children take their own food … … …However, many of these children, who are usually well fed, were found to be anemic in the hospital. As we all know, anemia is a “poor disease”. Now, with the continuous progress of society, people’s living conditions are also better. Children “eat”, “drink” are upscale, why still get this “poor disease”?
It? The reasons for this are mainly the following.
1, high protein caused by megaloblastic poverty
Binbin is 3 years old, it can be said that she is a veritable “egg baby”. She loves to eat eggs, at least three or four a day, even burping with the “egg taste”. Binbin has a bad problem, does not like to eat vegetables, fruits. Once you see the leafy greens, fruits, either do not eat, or contain in the mouth not to swallow, smacking the taste on the vomit. Recently, parents feel very puzzled, so “high protein” eating, how Binbin small face is not up, to the hospital a check, Binbin even patients with nutritional macrocytic anemia.
Nutritional megaloblastic anemia (megaloblastic anemia for short) is not a lack of iron, the raw material for blood production. This anemia occurs in babies as a result of a lack of folic acid and vitamin B12 due to a low intake of fresh vegetables and fruits. When babies lack folic acid and vitamin B12, the red blood cells in the bone marrow do not develop to maturity, which results in large, infantile red blood cell cytosomes released into the bloodstream. Such red blood cells age before they age and have a short life span.
Prevention: High protein does not necessarily equal good nutrition, and babies should have a balanced, moderate diet to help their physical development. Prevention of megaloblastic anemia, usually let your baby eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, especially foods rich in folic acid and vitamin B12, such as beans, green leafy vegetables, whole wheat bread, coarse grains, orange, etc.
2. Partial eating leads to iron deficiency anemia
Hanhan is 3.5 years old and likes to drink milk, eat cream cakes, sip yogurt and milk shakes all day long, and destroy an ice cream after lunch and dinner. A few days ago, the kindergarten baby’s physical examination revealed that Han Han had iron deficiency anemia. The parents were surprised to find out that a “milk baby” like Hanhan, who has to deal with “milk” all day long, was still anemic.
Although milk and dairy products are a good source of high quality protein and calcium, milk contains very little iron, with only 0.1-0.5 mg of iron per 100 ml of milk. Young children need 12 mg of iron per day, and even if a child’s stomach is filled with a variety of dairy products, it is still not enough to meet the body’s iron needs. What’s more, the sugar that goes into the stomach with the dairy products makes the baby full before he or she can eat properly. This kind of anemia, caused by iron deficiency in the diet, is also called iron deficiency anemia.
Prevention: Correct the bad habits of partial eating and have a wider range of recipes for your baby. Especially, let your baby eat more iron-rich foods, such as spinach, soy products, black fungus, animal’s heart, liver, beef, etc.
3, stomach disease caused by anemia
Jianjian is 5 years old. Recently, little Jianjian often likes to eat some strange things, like clods of earth, raw rice and so on. His parents took him to the hospital for a checkup, and the doctor diagnosed him as a heterophagist. The reason for this is that he has a stomach disease, and his anemia is caused by poor absorption of nutrients, which in turn causes this heterophagia.
How did he get the stomach disease at such a young age? It turns out that Jian Jian’s father is an “old gastroenterologist”. The doctor said that Jian Jian’s stomach disease is likely to be infected by his father. The majority of stomach problems are caused by Helicobacter pylori. The adult has a stomach disease, it can be transmitted to the baby through “close contact”, so that the baby also infected with stomach disease. For example, adults chew food to feed children; family dinner, you a chopstick he a spoon, to add vegetables to the baby bowl; a bottle of drink, adults to the mouth to drink, the child then drink …… so and so, H. pylori can be saliva, find a new master. In addition, H. pylori can also be transmitted through feces. With H. pylori feces, contaminated soil, water, vegetables, babies play with the soil without soap to wash their hands and take something to eat, drink raw water, raw vegetables that are not washed, may also “disease from the mouth”.
Prevention: strict attention to dietary hygiene in life, especially families with a family history of gastric disease, it is more important to implement the meal system, which can reduce the occurrence of gastric disease. At the same time, babies should wash their hands with soap in time after playing outdoors; do not drink raw water and do not eat raw vegetables that have not been washed to prevent “illness from the mouth”.
4.Anemia caused by hookworm
Niu Niu is 4 years old, recently, the mother took her out to play, often did not go far, Niu Niu said can not walk. The mother is worried that the baby could have some disease to take her to the hospital for examination, this investigation really found the problem, Niu Niu suffers from anemia. The family’s diet is not bad, Niu Niu has a good appetite and is not a picky eater, how can it be anemic? The mother of the girl is very confused. The doctor also gave Niu Niu a stool test and actually found hookworm eggs. The doctor said that the real culprit behind Niu Niu’s anemia was a hookworm infection.
Although hookworm disease is now much less than roundworm disease, pinworm disease, much less. Especially children in northern cities, the chance of hookworm infection is even less. However, with the change of climate in recent years and the increase of urban mobility to the countryside, families often go to the countryside for greenery and taste, which can cause hookworm disease if they do not pay attention to dietary hygiene.
Usually, hookworm eggs enter the soil with feces and hatch in the soil as larvae. When the human skin touches the soil where the hookworm larvae are hidden, the larvae burrow into the human skin and enter the bloodstream, then the larvae settle in the intestine, sucking blood to live, and develop into adults. Even if it is only one adult worm, it will suck blood while discharging anticoagulant substances, which will make the place where it has adsorbed drip blood out continuously. The adult worms also often change the adsorption site, so that the “little master” of the intestinal mucosa “a lot of holes”, serious anemia.
Prevention methods: usually pay attention to personal hygiene, when going on a picnic to advise the baby, do not walk barefoot on the mud, do not play with the soil. Go to the “farmhouse” to try fresh, wild vegetables must be cooked to eat.
5, leukemia caused by anemia
The doctor said that Wei Wei was suffering from anemia and told his mother to go back and give him more nutrition and prescribe some blood medicine. However, after two months, Wei Wei’s face did not improve, but “worsened”. The mother did not feel comfortable to take him to the city’s children’s hospital for a checkup, the results turned out to be leukemia. The doctor analyzed the reason, may be related to their home just after renovation to move into a new house.
A survey shows that 80% of pediatric leukemia patients have had luxury renovations in their homes within six months. Although “luxury decoration” does not necessarily lead to leukemia, but indoor decoration pollution is certainly not good for human health. Especially in infants and young children, the bone marrow is susceptible to environmental pollution and slow growth, or even stop growing, thus leading to serious diseases such as aplastic anemia and even leukemia. The initial manifestation of leukemia is mostly anemia, and some parents take their children to the hospital for examination when they see that their children are not rosy, and some small hospitals or health clinics often misdiagnose it as “anemia”. Leukemia is a very serious disease, the course of treatment is long, the suffering of children, and the mortality rate is also high.
Prevention: formaldehyde, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene, etc. are the most harmful to the human body. Therefore, home renovation to use environmentally friendly building materials; renovation time should avoid the summer; after renovation to try to ventilate more; best three months or six months before moving in.