Rice contains less zinc, people need supplement
Source: 24/7 Healthfoods News
ICDDR,B 'SUZY' Project Director Charles P Larson said different researches show that the soil of every district of the country is severely deficient in zinc. Its staple food rice contains very small amount of zinc. So people need zinc supplement.
He was delivering the keynote speech at a seminar on pediatric use of zinc at Dhaka Shishu Hospital auditorium in the city recently.
Dhaka Shishu Hospital (BICH) and the 'SUZY' Project of ICDDR,B jointly arranged the seminar with Orion Laboratories Ltd. sponsoring the event.
About 300 doctors and specialists participated in the seminar.
Larson said zinc is a very essential element for the human body and its deficiency leads to diarrhoea, pneumonia, diabetes, impaired immune function and skin diseases.
He also focused on the need of zinc in child health and said it is essential to give zinc supplement in all types of diarrhoea children suffer from.
The Orion Laboratories Ltd. is marketing their zinc syrup as 'Pep' and 'Pep-2' which are meeting zinc deficiency of the people in the country for a long time.
They have also launched zinc tablets under the brand name 'Pep-20' for adults.
