Everyone knows that the lack of iron in the child's body is fraught with anemia, or what else is called this condition - anemia.

What is anemia and where does iron come in?.

A special protein, hemoglobin, which is responsible for the transport of oxygen from the lungs along the bloodstream to all organs of our body, has iron in its composition. Oxygen starvation with insufficient hemoglobin production can cause anemia of varying severity - from the lungs to life-threatening. By the way, anemia is not a diagnosis at all, but only a group of syndromes, which indicates a shortage of hemoglobin and is an occasion to search for the causes of this phenomenon.

And the causes can be a malnutrition and insufficient intake of iron, problems with the assimilation of iron and vitamins, a lack of nutrients (vitamins, minerals, etc.), which are necessary for processing iron and producing hemoglobin.

Since the children's bone marrow and circulatory system are still too small, eating disorders can provoke anemia in them much faster than in adults.

What is iron? Since childhood we have heard that apples, garnets, buckwheat porridge and many other traditional products are rich in iron. This is quite true, however, there is a small "but" - in all products of plant origin the mineral is contained in the so-called "non-heme" form, the assimilation of which occurs an order of magnitude worse than the heme iron from animal products.

So scientists say that 20-30% of the mineral is absorbed and transported from the meat for hemoglobin, and 1-2% of buckwheat, apples and other plants.

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