What should I do if my child has no appetite?

It is very painful for mothers when their children have no appetite, because they are very afraid that their babies’ lack of appetite will affect their health. So what should we do when our children have no appetite? In fact, there are 8 ways to deal with it. The first and most important one is to never scold the baby.

1. Babies are usually sentimental people, so you should never scold them when they don’t eat well.

You know, to help your baby develop good habits, you must first provide them with a good environment. Therefore, we must provide the baby with a warm and comfortable dining environment, do not force the children, and do not put pressure on them!

If parents scold their babies for not eating well, then the babies will be even more reluctant to eat. Even if they do eat, it will be like chewing wax, which is not only tasteless but also affects the absorption of nutrients. Moreover, forcing children to eat can easily cause indigestion and vomiting.

2. The shape of food will affect your baby's appetite

Many babies don’t like to eat vegetables, so we can chop the vegetables into pieces and make dumplings, or make them into cute little mice or rabbits and steam them for them.

3. The nature of food and its effect on the baby's stomach

The weather is dry in this season and babies are prone to getting angry. Some parents will give their babies persimmons and grapefruits to reduce internal heat. However, they do not know that these things are cold in nature and eating too much will cool the stomach. The baby's stomach and intestines are not as strong as those of adults, which can easily cause diarrhea, leading to loss of appetite in babies.

There are also fragrant sugar-roasted chestnuts and all kinds of nuts that children love to eat, but these things are oily and eating too much will cause bloating. If the stomach is bloated, how can the baby have an appetite to eat staple food?

4. Exercise more to stimulate appetite and promote absorption

5. For babies with small appetites, refuse snacks

If your baby has a small appetite, stop giving him all snacks and all flavored waters (all kinds of flavored waters are bad for the stomach), especially within an hour before meals, do not give your baby any snacks.

6. To develop good habits, parents need to be “ruthless”

It is not easy to develop a good habit, and parents sometimes have to be a little "cruel".

For example, if the baby says she doesn’t want to eat anymore, don’t be afraid that she will be hungry and play the game of eagle chasing the chicken, chasing her around to feed her. If the adults have finished their meal but the baby is not paying attention and leaves half a bowl of food left, as a parent you must also be ruthless and take it away and wait until the next meal to eat it!

Some parents do not approve of this practice, fearing that it will upset their children's stomachs. I give a clear answer: "No," because poor stomach function is the result of long-term bad habits. For this reason, we must also cultivate the habit of eating well for our babies.

7. Add coarse grains appropriately; eating more coarse grains helps digestion and absorption

Food is becoming more and more refined, which is not good for babies. It will not only pamper the baby's stomach and slow down gastrointestinal motility, but also affect the baby's chewing ability and tooth growth, making the teeth fragile.

Occasionally eat whole grains, such as corn porridge, taro porridge, black rice, millet (the most nutritious and spleen-strengthening), various beans and nuts are good choices;

8. Treat symptoms with appropriate medication to regulate the spleen and stomach

There are also many babies who don’t eat well because of their poor physical constitution, which leads to weak spleen and stomach. For such babies, you need to take it slow and regulate the spleen and stomach first, or strengthen the spleen, or stimulate the appetite.

Here is a simple appetizer soup: Boil hawthorn and red dates into soup, drink one cup every day.