What are the symptoms of zinc deficiency in women?

Everyone knows that zinc is a very important trace element in the human body. Especially if you don’t have a proper diet, it is very easy to cause zinc deficiency. Zinc deficiency in the human body also affects physical and intellectual development, and can cause a series of health diseases, such as causing delayed or disordered menstruation in women. If not improved in time, it can cause irreversible harm. The following specifically introduces the specific symptoms that women will experience when they are zinc deficient.

1. Diet

Zinc is an important component of taste hormones. Zinc deficiency in women may lead to a decline in or even failure of taste function, causing picky eating and anorexia. Young girls may also develop pica such as biting fingers, clothes, eating dirt, and eating paper. In addition, zinc deficiency will lead to a decrease in the secretion of zinc-containing digestive enzymes, causing weakened digestive function, indigestion, abdominal bloating, and affecting appetite.

2. Weak constitution

Zinc is a powerful immunomodulator and plays an important role in the human immune function. Women who are zinc deficient have weak constitutions and low immunity, and they get sick easily. Even the slightest change in the weather will cause them to suffer from repeated colds and fevers, and they lack resistance to epidemic diseases.

3. Hair quality

Women who are zinc deficient have dull hair, which falls out easily and becomes dry, yellow and sparse.

His face was dark yellow and he looked sick, showing signs of mild malnutrition.

5. Night sweats

The slightest exercise will cause sweating, and night sweats are prone to occur when sleeping, and it is easy to wake up.

6. Lack of concentration and poor memory

Whether at work or study, I have difficulty concentrating, have a poor memory, and am forgetful.

7. Decreased vision

Women with zinc deficiency will experience a significant decline in vision, and in severe cases may develop night blindness, causing people who were not originally nearsighted to become nearsighted.

Studies have shown that oral ulcers, white spots on nails, and hangnails are related to zinc deficiency. If women experience the above symptoms of zinc deficiency, they should go to the hospital for a trace element test in time, and eat more lean meat, fish, seafood, animal offal and other foods high in zinc in daily life. If the zinc deficiency is more serious, you can take highly active and easily absorbed zinc preparations such as Xinxibao Zinc and Selenium to safely and quickly supplement zinc to avoid delaying your health.

Zinc deficiency needs to be supplemented in time, and relying solely on food for supplementation is not comprehensive and cannot achieve the purpose of timely supplementation. Pay more attention to your diet in daily life, and eat more whole flour, tofu and other soy products, beef, mutton, fish, lean meat, peanuts, sesame seeds, dairy products, cocoa and other foods to supplement zinc. In addition, there are some foods rich in zinc, such as seafood, mushrooms, eggs, garlic, etc.

In daily life, we must develop the good habit of not being picky about food and ensuring a balanced diet. First of all, we should take the method of dietary supplements and eat more foods high in zinc. If you need to supplement zinc through medicine, you should follow the doctor's instructions to avoid trace element poisoning that harms your health.