Is zinc harmful to the human body?

I believe that many parents will give their children zinc supplements, because only when the zinc content in the child's body is sufficient can they grow better and healthier. In order to make their sexual organs develop better, many male friends also supplement their bodies with large amounts of zinc. But some friends are skeptical about taking large amounts of zinc supplements. So is zinc harmful to the human body? Facing this problem, let me share it with you in the next period of time.

Zinc is involved in the metabolism of nucleic acid proteins, can promote the normal development of skin, bones and sexual organs, and maintain digestive and metabolic activities. The specific functions include promoting human growth and development, maintaining normal appetite, enhancing human immunity, promoting the healing of wounds and trauma, affecting vitamin A metabolism and normal vision, and maintaining normal male spermatogenesis.

When developing children lack zinc, they may suffer from anorexia, dwarfism, etc. Therefore, people call zinc the "element of life."

The adult body contains about 2.3g of zinc, and the concentration of zinc in plasma is 10-20umol/L.

Excessive zinc intake can cause poisoning. For example, excessive zinc intake can cause acute zinc poisoning, with gastrointestinal symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea; inhalation of factory zinc mist can cause low fever and cold-like symptoms; chronic zinc poisoning can cause symptoms such as anemia; animal experiments can cause damage to liver, kidney function and immunity. The paint on some children's toys contains zinc. Children like to put toys in their mouths, and frequent intake of too much zinc can cause poisoning. Zinc has low toxicity. The various pathological reactions caused by excessive zinc intake are mainly the consequences of the mutual antagonism between zinc and elements such as calcium, selenium, copper and iron.

Generally speaking, if you eat a normal, comprehensive and balanced diet, your body will not be deficient in zinc.

I believe that through the above understanding of all of us, regarding whether zinc is harmful to the human body, most of our friends have already formed their own unique insights and more standard conclusions. Of course, what I want to tell you is that although zinc is indispensable for our healthy growth, we must also stay within the standard range when supplementing it, because we must understand the principle that everything will turn into its opposite when it reaches its extreme, so as to avoid more accidents.