How to determine whether a pregnant woman is zinc deficient

During pregnancy, you will eat more nutritious food than usual, but many women will experience morning sickness, and they will vomit out everything they eat, so they cannot absorb any nutrients. Until they stop vomiting, they will try hard to replenish nutrients. There is nothing you can do about it, but you are worried that the body will not be able to keep up due to the heavy vomiting in the previous few months, and you worry about lacking one or the other. So, how to judge whether pregnant women are lacking in calcium?

How to judge whether pregnant women are calcium deficient

To see if a pregnant woman is calcium deficient, a blood test is necessary. This is a nutritional test. The woman cannot eat or drink before the blood test. The test on an empty stomach gives the most accurate value. This test is very necessary because calcium deficiency in pregnant women is not good for the growth and development of the fetus. In severe cases, it may cause miscarriage.

What are the symptoms of calcium deficiency in pregnant women?

1. If you are calcium deficient, morning sickness during pregnancy will be more severe, vomiting will occur easily, and the growth and development of the fetus will be poor, which may easily lead to premature birth. The weight of the newborn after birth will also be lighter, which also increases the risk of fetal malformation, causing brain development of the fetus, and pregnant women will be more likely to get sick.

2. If you accidentally scratch your skin, it will not heal easily and will take a long time to heal. It will also be more painful than normal. Pregnant women have little appetite, and their appetite will be even worse after calcium deficiency. They will forget things quickly, and even if they sleep for a long time, they will feel very tired and their body will feel very uncomfortable.

How to determine whether you are calcium deficient? The scientific and simple way is to go to the hospital to measure the blood potassium content. The normal blood potassium level of a person is maintained at 2.18-2.63 mmol/L (9-11 mg/dL). If it is lower than this range, it is considered as calcium deficiency. However, for people over 60 years old, due to physiological reasons, their thyroid hormone levels increase over a long period of time, causing "calcium to move" and increasing blood potassium. In this way, the measurement results cannot truly reflect the calcium content in the body. At this time, accurate measurement of normal bone density should be carried out. In daily life, we can also perform self-diagnosis based on some symptoms.

(1) Children When children have the following symptoms, they should be diagnosed with calcium deficiency: difficulty falling asleep, difficulty entering deep sleep, crying and waking up easily after falling asleep, sweating easily after falling asleep; intermittent abdominal pain, diarrhea, leg cramps, sternum pain, "X'-shaped legs, "O"-shaped legs, pigeon chest, gray nails or white marks; anorexia, picky eating; irritability and restlessness during the day; delayed brain development and late speech; late learning to crawl, only starting to learn to crawl after 13 months; late teething, only growing teeth after 10 months, sparse, uneven, and not close together teeth, black pointed or jagged; sparse hair; poor physical condition, easy to catch a cold, etc. (2) Children Calcium deficiency in children will feel obvious growing pains, weak feet, leg cramps, poor physical examination results; fatigue, irritability, lack of concentration, easy fatigue; picky eating, anorexia; tooth decay, incomplete tooth development; easy to get skin allergies, easy to catch a cold, etc.