Adolescent girls are prone to irritability due to iron deficiency

Iron is one of the essential trace elements for human health and is an important raw material for the synthesis of hemoglobin in the human body. Iron deficiency can reduce hemoglobin content and physiological activity, so that the amount of oxygen in the blood decreases and affects the supply of nutrients and oxygen in the brain.

Adolescent girls are undergoing tremendous changes in their body and mind. Not only does the body shape grow suddenly, but all internal organs are also developing rapidly. With the development of puberty, the demand for various nutrients also increases greatly, and the body urgently needs to supplement more iron to meet the vigorous body metabolism. Girls' menstrual cramps cause iron loss, and the iron content in food is relatively insufficient, so girls generally suffer from iron deficiency to varying degrees. Scientific research has proved that the amount of iron required by the human body during puberty is 18 mg per day, and menstruating women need 2.2-2.3 mg of iron per day to supplement the iron loss caused by menstruation. In foreign research, 16-17-year-old female students with low blood iron levels were supplemented with iron-containing syrup for two months. Before iron supplementation, most girls had mood swings, inattention, weakness, and fatigue; after iron supplementation, the level of iron in the blood returned to normal, and fatigue, burnout and other symptoms disappeared.

Adolescent girls should pay attention to iron supplementation:

1. The most common and convenient way is dietary iron supplementation. Usually eat more iron-rich foods, such as animal liver, kidney, blood, lean meat, eggs, seafood such as fish, shrimp, seaweed, kelp, jellyfish, soybean products, red dates, black fungus, etc.

2. Cooking in an iron pot can increase the iron in food by 10-19 times. At the same time, when the iron pot is in a high temperature state, due to the effect of seasoning and the stirring of the shovel and spoon, the inorganic iron particles on the inner surface of the pot fall off, which is convenient for human body to absorb.

3. Diversify your usual diet, avoid partial eclipse, let alone go on a diet blindly.

4. For girls who are obviously deficient in iron, they should be supplemented with iron medicines in time under the guidance of a doctor, such as ferrous gluconate, ferrous sulfate, artificial blood tonics, etc.