what are the symptoms of a person who is said to be lacking iron or any minerals from the body?

Question

i have a daughter who is 1yr 2mths old she used to eat soil when ever she plays, she eats soil and people are saying she
lacks some irons in the body but i dont think she is ill because most of the kids eat soil. what could be the problem please help?

Answer 1

Signs of anemia may include the following:

Black and tarry stools (sticky and foul smelling)
Maroon, or visibly bloody stools
Rapid heart rate
Rapid breathing
Pale or cold skin
Yellow skin called jaundice
Low blood pressure
Heart murmur
Enlargement of the spleen

Symptoms of anemia may include the following:

Fatigue
Trouble breathing
Chest pain
Abdominal pain
Weight loss
Weakness
Dizziness and passing out, especially upon standing

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That eating soil thing is just a myth...your daughter is eating soil because she can. IF she is anemic, she doesn't have some innate knowledge that soil will give her iron.

Answer 2

Plants do not need a imperative anxious procedure, or any type of anxious procedure. They have 0 recognition, so they've 0 ability to think whatever, adding pleasure and soreness. They do not harm while you devour them, there's no agony concerned. Animals, alternatively, do have a imperative anxious procedure. They have brains as good. They are sentient beings, that means that should you reduce them, they bleed and think it and it hurts. If you kill them, they undergo. Even should you preserve them for milk and eggs, they undergo. Why? Because dairy and eggs come from manufacturing unit farms, which deal with the animals with definitely no compassion whatever. To the farmers, they don't seem to be fellow creatures, however commidoties, and not anything extra. There isn't any veterinary care, they are living of their possess shitt, they are overcrowded - such a lot in order that chickens cannot even unfold one wing, they get infections as a result of farm residing and no longer reward in feral (loose) animals, soooo many cruelties those deficient creatures suffer, and for what? For benefit, natural and realistic. Sure, now we have dominion over animals, however that does not imply we need to deal with them so cruelly. Instead, that signifies that for the reason that we are essentially the most robust creatures, now we have the responsibility to and to protect all of the different creatures, large and small. So, killing a plant to devour is nice, certainly not merciless. Killing an animal isn't nice, and really merciless.

Answer 3

I wouldn't let her eat soil because we just got a puppy and i learned that puppies get worms from dirt.

My girl friend's son ate lots of dirt - he even ate dog waste before my friend got to him. He's fine. But still....

I've heard of kids eating dirt, but mine never did and the little boy I know who did eat dirt is the only kid i've ever seen do that.

Answer 4

At that age, most children are still putting things in their mouths - it's normal. Your biggest concern would be what she can "pick up" from consuming dirt - germs, parasites from animal droppings (even if you don't have a dog or cat), wild animals such as rodents, snakes and even bird droppings can have serious consequences. If she's ill, she needs to be assessed by a physician. They will determine if her consumption of soil has any influence on the diagnosis.

from a website:
each of us inadvertently eats a little dirt every day. This dirt can pose a health threat, especially near sites of industrial contamination, but dirt we eat intentionally poses a greater challenge. Intention may indicate something biologic that drives some of us (sometimes regularly, sometimes religiously, sometimes ritually) to eat dirt.

Eating dirt appears nearly universal among children under 2 years of age. When I asked my 2-year-old daughter why she ate dirt, she just stared at me, her eyes wide open, a thick moustache of loam limning her lips. She must have decided that either what I had asked was unfathomably abstract or her answer would be far beyond my comprehension.

How dangerous is eating dirt? My mother was pretty certain about this—damn dangerous. Soils contaminated by industrial or human pollutants pose considerable threat to anyone who eats them. Reports abound of lead poisoning and other toxicities in children eating contaminated soils. Similarly, we do not have to look farther than the last refugee camp or the slums of Calcutta or Tijuana or Basra to find the dangers of soils contaminated with untreated human waste. But the inherent biologic danger of soil is difficult to assess. Soil unaffected by the pressures of overpopulation, industry, and agriculture may be vastly different from the soil most of us encounter routinely.

Most infectious diseases acquired through eating dirt are associated with childhood geophagy, which routinely involves topsoils rather than deep clays. One recent report describes infection of two children at separate sites with raccoon roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis ) (21). The infection resulted in severe neurologic damage to both children, and one died. The roundworm was ingested along with soil in both cases. Eating dirt can have dire consequences.

In the United States, the most common parasitic infection associated with geophagy is toxocariasis, most often caused by the worm Toxocara canis. Seroprevalence is 4% to 8% depending on the region, but incidence of antibodies to T. canis is as high as 16%–30% among blacks and Hispanics. The most common route of infection is ingestion of soil contaminated with dog or cat feces (22). Even though, humans are only paratenic hosts of T. canis, under some circumstances (though severe cases are rare), the worm can cause considerable damage (visceral larva migrans, ocular larva migrans, urticaria, pulmonary nodules, hepatic and lymphatic visceral larva migrans, arthralgias) (22–24). Toxocara eggs persist in soil for years. As with soils contaminated by human wastes, soil consumption itself does not cause toxocariasis. And studies of seroprevalence do not distinguish between infection and immunization.

Answer 5

iron is a important component of blood, or more specifically, haemoglobin. thus, a person lacking in iron would look pale and tire easily.

eating soil should be alright as it builds the immune system? i guess so. (: