[Source: Shantou Health and Health Bureau_Work News] As the national three-child policy continues to be relaxed, more and more cute babies are coming. Pregnant mothers in the world will supplement a lot of nutrients in order to be smart and cute. But don’t forget this one. Iodine

[Source: Shantou Municipal Health Bureau_Work News]

With the continuous relaxation of the national three-child policy

More and more cute babies are coming to the human world

Pregnant mothers can be smart and cute

will supplement a lot of nutrients

But don’t forget this one of them ~

Iodine is an essential trace element for the body, and it is also an extremely important trace element for children’s intellectual development. It is an important raw material for the synthesis of thyroid hormones, affecting the growth, development and metabolism of the body. Iodine deficiency in the fetal stage and before the age of 3 will lead to disability in the brain development.

Diseases caused by iodine deficiency

has different manifestations in different growth and development stages

Some people may say: "The salt we eat now is iodized salt, how can it be iodine deficiency?" From the perspective of my country's national conditions, my country is a country with very serious harm in iodine deficiency. Since the 1990s, my country has implemented the national salt iodine policy and achieved great prevention and control results; but the external environment iodine deficiency state cannot be changed.

Since the human body cannot produce iodine itself, it all depends on the outside world to supplement it, making iodine supplementation still our daily homework.

So, how to supplement iodine?

The amount of iodine required for different growth stages of people is different.

Infants (after birth to 36 months of age)

Breast-fed infants can meet the needs of infants aged 0 to 6 months when the mother consumes sufficient iodine; infants aged 7 to 12 months can obtain part of iodine in complementary foods; children aged 13 to 24 months can start trying adult foods, add a small amount of iodine to obtain a certain amount of iodine.

The complementary foods of infants and young children should contain seafood rich in iodine. Non-breastfeeding infants should eat infant milk powder containing iodine.

Children, adolescents and general adults

ingest 5g of iodized salt per day, and the cooking loss rate is calculated based on 20% recommended by WHO and other international organizations. 100 μg of iodine can be obtained from salt per day. Adding iodine in drinking water and food can achieve the daily amount of iodine.

Pregnant and childbirth

In addition to insisting on eating iodine salt, it is recommended to eat small amounts of iodine-rich seafood, such as kelp and seaweed; you can also eat iodine-containing nutrients.

Warm reminder: With the acceleration of the pace of modern life, it is common for office workers to order takeout. In addition, an occasional barbecue, you can consume more than 5g of salt every day. People of this type of population need to pay attention to reducing their salt intake. Eat too much salt often, chronic diseases such as hypertension , cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases may get you.

Source: Guangdong Disease Control

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