Quite often frequent colds, small appetite, pallor and drowsiness at the child are symptom of anemia – conditions of blood at which there is a change of its quantitative structure towards reduction of erythrocytes in it (red blood cells). Anemia is the most widespread disease among children of all age and does a lot of harm for the growing organism therefore demands also treatment and prevention.
Instruction
1. Treatment of anemia can yield good result if to establish the reason of its emergence. Her most frequent responsible are helminths (worms), insufficient receipt with food of iron or violation of its absorbability in intestines, deficiency of the vitamins and minerals necessary for successful digestion of iron, infectious diseases, some diseases of blood.
2. The children sick with anemia, often suffer from lack of appetite therefore long walks in a park zone are shown them. Saturation of such places oxygen promotes enrichment of blood with it and to improvement of appetite. Not only walks, but also a dream in the fresh air are useful to the most small children.
3. In treatment of anemia the balanced food is important. It has to be with the sufficient content of iron and also the vitamins and minerals promoting its assimilation. Vitamins C, B6, B12, folic acid belong to them. Their main sources are raw vegetables and fruit therefore they are necessary in the daily menu in the form of juice and puree. For babies with symptoms of anemia the early introduction of these dishes is recommended (fruit juice since 3 weeks, fruit purees since 1.5-2-h months, vegetable purees since 3 and a half months).
4. Food at anemia has to be both various and full. At a diet there have to be surely the wiped liver, fish, buckwheat, eggs, milk, croutons from gray bread, bean, greens, porridges.
5. Aloe syrup with iron is useful to treatment of anemia (on 15 – 20 drops 3 times a day to children about one year; on ½-1 teaspoon 3 times a day to children are more senior than year).
6. Treatment of anemia medicines of iron or gemostimuliny can be only from a medical prescription as anemia has the different forms of a current and not always gland is followed by deficiency. At some types of anemia there is enough treatment by folic acid and B12 vitamin which intake also has to be after appointment as the doctor. Without appointment it is possible to accept preventive doses of ascorbic acid.