Why doesn't the baby want to eat?

Now that people's living conditions have improved, parents in many families will pay special attention to their children's diet and other aspects. Some parents usually give their children snacks, but over time, the children will develop the habit of skipping regular meals. Some children eat too little, and some parents start to worry about insufficient nutrition. So what is the matter with babies not wanting to eat? I believe that this question is something that some parents would like to know. Next, let’s take a closer look at the reasons.

1. Constant snacking, constant mouthfeeling, and a busy stomach will lead to gastrointestinal motility and secretion disorders. Most children love to eat sweets. High-calorie sweets such as drinks, ice cream, and chocolate will excite the satiety center and inhibit the feeding center. In this way, children will hardly feel hungry and therefore have no interest in eating.

2. Children have irregular eating habits and no fixed meal times. Meal times are prolonged or shortened, and normal gastrointestinal digestion patterns are disrupted, so children will not eat obediently.

3. One-sided pursuit of high nutrition, giving children meat, eggs and milk without restraint, damaging the gastrointestinal tract and causing indigestion.

4. The eating environment is poor, children play while eating, or their parents tease or scold them while eating, which prevents the food center of the cerebral cortex from forming a dominant excitation focus.

5. Parents pay too much attention to their children's eating, which makes the children develop a rebellious mentality and then use refusing to eat as a bargaining chip to make conditions. Parents should be more relaxed about their children and let them eat more easily.

6. Zinc deficiency causes changes in taste. Children who are zinc deficient have lower taste sensitivity than normal children, which can easily lead to loss of appetite. To observe whether a child is zinc deficient, parents can judge by looking at the tongue coating. The small protrusions on the tongue are mostly flat or atrophied compared to the tongue of a normal child.

7. Lack of exercise, reduced metabolism, and failure to strengthen gastrointestinal digestive function; irregular life, insufficient sleep, excessive fatigue, constipation, physical discomfort, etc.

8. When children are sick, their appetite may change and they may not like to eat. Taking too many medicines or abusing health supplements will increase the burden on gastrointestinal digestion and absorption, causing the baby to lose interest in eating.

The above is a detailed introduction to why babies don’t want to eat. If children don’t like to eat, parents should help them develop the habit of concentrating on eating. In addition, for children with poor stomachs, parents can prepare some light foods that are good for the stomach. If you skip meals because you eat too many snacks, you should control the amount of snacks you eat on a daily basis.