Calcium deficiency should be diagnosed when a child has some of the following symptoms: difficulty falling asleep, difficulty falling into a deep sleep, crying and waking up easily after falling asleep, excessive sweating after falling asleep; paroxysmal abdominal pain, diarrhea, cramps, sternal pain, “X”-shaped legs, “O”-shaped legs, chicken chest, grey nails or white marks; anorexia, paranoia; daytime restlessness, fidgeting; late intellectual development, late speech; late toddler, starting to toddle after 13 months; late toddler; late toddler, starting to toddle after 13 months. The nails are gray or have white marks; anorexia, partial eating; daytime irritability, fidgeting; late intellectual development, late speech; late toddler, starting to toddle after 13 months; late teething, teething after 10 months, teeth are sparse, uneven, not close, teeth are black-tipped or jagged; thinning hair; poor health, easy to catch a cold, etc.
Adolescents
Adolescents with calcium deficiency will feel obvious growing pains, weak legs, cramps, poor performance in physical education classes; weakness, irritability, lack of energy, easy to get tired; partial eating, anorexia; tooth decay, poor dental development; easy to allergic, easy to catch a cold, etc.
Young adults
In general, young adults have a heavy life pressure, and the intense pace of life often makes them neglect some physical discomfort, plus there are no typical symptoms of calcium deficiency at that age, so it is easy to cover up the condition. When there are frequent symptoms such as tiredness, fatigue, cramps, back pain, easy allergy, easy to catch a cold, etc., you should suspect whether calcium deficiency.
Pregnant women
Calcium deficiency is more common among women in extraordinary periods. However, with the popularization of knowledge about eugenics, people are more familiar with the symptoms of calcium deficiency during this period. Calcium deficiency should be diagnosed when they feel loose teeth; weakness of limbs, frequent cramps and numbness; back pain, joint pain, rheumatic pain; dizziness and suffer from anemia, prenatal hypertension syndrome, edema and insufficient lactation.
Older people
After adulthood, the body slowly enters a period of negative calcium balance, which means that the absorption of calcium decreases and excretion increases. Most elderly people suffer from calcium deficiency due to calcium loss. They self-diagnose symptoms such as itchy skin disease in old age; heel pain, lumbar and cervical pain; loose and lost teeth; pronounced hunchback, reduced height; loss of appetite, peptic ulcer, constipation; excessive dreaming, insomnia, irritability, irritability, etc.
Of course, the most reliable way to check for calcium deficiency is to go to a hospital and ask a specialist for examination and diagnosis, and then take medication under the guidance of the doctor.
Calcium deficiency in children
The mother brought him to the hospital for examination and the doctor decided that Mao Mao was calcium deficient.
Due to the rapid growth of children, and the lack of outdoor activities and sun exposure, it often causes insufficient absorption of calcium and leads to various calcium deficiencies.
Whether a child is calcium deficient can be judged from the following aspects.
(1) Sweating is often seen, independent of temperature, especially after sleep, so that the child’s head constantly rubs against the pillow, resulting in occipital bald circles at the back of the skull.
(2) Mental irritability, disinterest in the surroundings, and sometimes parents find that the child is not as lively as before.
③Night terrors, often waking up suddenly at night, crying more than once.
④After 1 year of age, the child shows late teething, and some children still have not teething at 1.5 years old, and the closure of the front chimney door is delayed, often still not closed after 1.5 years old.
⑤ High forehead protrusion, forming a square cranium.
(6) There are often beaded ribs, due to the lack of vitamin D, rib cartilage hyperplasia, each rib cartilage hyperplasia connected like a string of beads, often compressing the lungs, so that children have poor ventilation, easy to suffer from bronchitis, pneumonia.
When calcium deficiency in children is serious, the muscles and tendons are relaxed. If the abdominal wall muscles, intestinal wall muscle relaxation, can cause the intestinal cavity pneumonia and the formation of abdominal expansion such as frog belly. If the tendons of the spine are relaxed, hunchback may appear, and if the child learns to walk after the age of 1, calcium deficiency may soften the bones and bend the lower limbs with the weight of the body when standing, some of them may have “X” shaped legs and some may have “O” shaped legs, and fractures may easily occur.
Parents should learn to determine whether their children are calcium deficient according to their performance, so that they can provide their children with calcium-rich foods, such as fish, shrimp, kelp and rib soup, and eat more vitamin D-rich foods, such as pig liver, lamb liver and beef liver, to promote the absorption of calcium. Generally, children with mild calcium deficiency can improve their calcium deficiency symptoms with dietary supplements. If the symptoms are more severe, vitamin D and calcium supplements can be taken under the guidance of a doctor.