What are the symptoms of Iron deficiency in children?

"So iron is an essential element which is required for body's growth and development it will help in maintaining our hemoglobin too . So how do we check for iron levels in the child is we do not regularly screen for iron levels in the child until unless there are at risk like preterm babies or those who are a little underweight we then go for screening of iron levels. Testing of the blood levels is the only way which we will know if they're deficient of iron. So how do we prevent is one common thing is in our country especially deworming has to be done regularly every specifically every 6 months or at least preferably once a year at least deworming should be done because if the deworming is not done intestinal worms will cause malnutrition and anemia ultimately. So that is one thing which we have to do to prevent iron deficiency anemia. The second thing is including an iron rich diet iron rich diet will include dairy products spinach green leafy vegetables grains chickpeas. All these are containing rich iron sources. So including iron in your diet will help in reducing iron deficiency anemia atrisk babies like preterm term babies for those who are underweight we usually screen them and then start them on iron supplements at a young age to prevent iron deficiency anemia some of the symptoms which you can identify in children and help them bring to the doctor at an early time is they will become fatigued. Most common symptoms will be fatigue, breathlessness. Severe anemia can cause breathlessness so these are some of the signs which you have to keep in mind to bring them at an early time to the Paediatrician"