Pediatric zinc deficiency may result in loss of appetite, slowed growth and development, low immunity, xenophagia and other clinical manifestations.
1. Loss of appetite: Zinc deficiency in children may lead to a decrease in taste sensitivity, resulting in loss of appetite and anorexia.
2. Slowing of growth and development: Zinc deficiency can hinder the synthesis of nucleic acids and proteins as well as loss of appetite, resulting in slowing of growth and development.
3. Low immunity: Low immunity in zinc deficiency can lead to infections, such as colds, fever and respiratory tract infections.
4. Ectophagy: When zinc deficiency occurs, children will like to eat hair, paper, wall plaster and other foreign objects.
When there are various clinical manifestations of zinc deficiency, it is necessary to go to the hospital in time for examination, to clarify the cause of the disease, and actively treat it, and when it is diagnosed as zinc deficiency, it is necessary to supplement zinc in time.