Gupta Anil (ed.) Nutritional Anemia in Preschool Children

Springer, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-981-10-5177-7The book highlights intricate predisposing factors for pathogenesis of nutritional anemia. It delivers valuable information related to this public health hazard influencing the nutritional health of preschool children. The book is valuable for readers in diverse fields to gain insight of the concept of nutritional anemia in preschool children. Additionally, book furnishes clinical and laboratory methods in a comparative way to assess nutritional anemia. Impact of the disorder on health of preschool children has been covered in a simple language. The book mentions need for interventional strategies for the management of nutritional anemia.Infants, preschool children and women during pregnancy and lactation are highly susceptible to dietary deficiency of iron, folic acid and cyanocobalamin leading to comparatively, higher predisposition to development of nutritional anemia. The condition has myriad of ill effects on nutritional health of preschool children.Epidemiology of Nutritional Anemia
Physiological Contemplation of Iron in the Body
Iron Metabolism in Human Body
Aetiology of Iron Deficiency in Children
Laboratory Estimation of Iron in Body
Consequences of Iron Deficiency Anemia
Vitamin B12 and Folic Acid in Nutritional Anemia in Children
Implication of Vitamin A in Nutritional Anemia
Role of Zinc, Copper and Selenium in Nutritional Anemia
Effect of Diarrhea on Anemia in Children
Effect of Malnutrition on Nutritional Anemia
Infants’ Consumption of Cow Milk and Anemia
Interventional Strategies for Prevention of Nutritional Anemia