Symptoms of zinc deficiency

With the increase in television commercials, people are familiar with zinc and know that zinc deficiency can cause anorexia in children. The most famous TV commercial is the one where Jiang Wenli and her child quarrel over whether to eat or not. The child's problem of not eating is immediately solved with zinc supplementation. This shows the importance of zinc. Zinc participates in the synthesis of salivary protein. Zinc deficiency will cause food to have no taste, nothing is delicious, and the child will not want to eat.

Nowadays, many people think that eating meat is bad and can cause many diseases, so they eat vegetarian food. There is also a popular saying among the people: radish and cabbage keep you safe. Being a vegetarian can cause zinc deficiency. Eating meat properly is good for the human body. Meat contains a lot of zinc. Symptoms of zinc deficiency:

Nutritional zinc deficiency, also known as zinc deficiency, is caused by insufficient intake, increased requirements, and low bioavailability of dietary zinc. Zinc is a component or coenzyme of the six major enzymes and 200 metalloenzymes in the human body, and plays a wide range of roles in body metabolism. Zinc is mainly found in meat and grains. When zinc is deficient, the prominent symptoms are loss of appetite, growth retardation, pica and dermatitis, which often occur in children under 6 years old.

child

Taste disorder: anorexia, partiality or pica; Skin diseases: prone to oral ulcers, difficult healing of damaged wounds, acne during adolescence, etc.; Poor growth and development: short stature, thin; decreased immunity, frequent colds and fevers; intellectual retardation;

Pregnant women

Increased pregnancy reactions: acidophilus, vomiting, increased intrauterine fetal growth retardation: leading to premature babies, low birth weight babies, increased complications of delivery: prolonged labor, miscarriage, premature birth, increased rate of fetal malformation: malformation of the central nervous system of the brain

Adult male

Male infertility: male diseases such as oligospermia, asthenospermia, semen liquefaction failure, male prostatitis, etc., have a particularly great impact on fertility.

The above introduces the symptoms of zinc deficiency. You can judge whether you and your family are zinc deficient based on your physical condition. If you are zinc deficient, you must supplement it in time. The harm of zinc deficiency is still very large. There are still many foods containing zinc in daily life, such as garlic, tomatoes, eggplant, melon, etc. You can eat more.