Iron deficiency anemia in children care

Rail is an indispensable human hematopoietic trace elements,
The disease mostly due to inadequate intake of iron caused, such as long-term feeding to dairy without dietary supplements or dietary supplements do not add volume and too little time; disease duration and recovery too restrictive diet, and the partial eclipse; Growth faster David babies, iron intake lags behind; also functions such as digestion disorders, long-term vomiting or diarrhea, chronic dysentery, and so may directly impede the absorption of protein and iron caused anemia. The disease can occur in children of any age, reflected mainly in fatigue fatigue, dizziness tinnitus, loss of appetite. Dyspepsia, irritability, ideology can not concentrate, skin, your lips, oral mucosa, ocular conjunctiva, pale palms and nail. Severe anemia, may have low heat, breathing and pulse accelerated heart expand, the former District heart murmur can be heard contraction, hepatosplenomegaly, and even mental retardation.

Nursing points

◆ environment to a quiet room, the air should flow. Children with anemia due to low resistance, vulnerable to diseases such as indigestion, diarrhea, pneumonia, children in public places as little as possible to places where there are more people, and not to contact with other patients to avoid cross-infection due to infection after anemia can increase.

◆ reasonable feeding is an important way to correct anemia. There should be more to iron-rich foods, such as animal’s heart, liver, kidney, blood and beef, egg yolk, spinach, soybean, black fungus, red dates, and so on, and correct partial eclipse habits. The promotion of breastfeeding because breast milk than in the high iron content, it can easily absorb. And attention to the timely addition of dietary supplements, such as three to four months babies can be addressed to the egg yolk 1 / 4, then gradually increased to 1, seven months after the additive minced meat, Ganni, to improve infant appetite and also to prevent indigestion.

◆ under the guidance of the doctors taking iron preparations. The best baby in between meals served to facilitate absorption, because iron on the gastric mucosa are stimulated and clothes after easily generate nausea hey Tuha, while avoiding taking with milk calcium at the same time, do not use tea fed suits, so effects of iron absorption. using excessive, there will be the poisoning phenomenon.

◆ severe anemia patients after easy palpitation, dyspnea, we must bed rest and, if necessary, needed oxygen, blood transfusion.

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