What should I do if my seven-year-old child has a poor appetite?

It is very common for children to be picky eaters. Many children are picky about what they eat. Those who have not paid attention to their diet since childhood will have a strong taste for food, which will irritate their stomachs. It is also due to the influence of various factors that children have poor appetites and often do not like to eat. They will become thin and cannot get enough nutrition. Compared with children of the same age, their height and weight will be affected. So what should we do if a seven-year-old child has a poor appetite?

First, we need to understand the reasons why children have poor appetite, then eliminate these reasons, take corresponding measures, and provide a reasonable diet. This will whet children's appetite and increase their appetite. The causes of anorexia are as follows:

1. Vigorous exercise before meals suppresses the appetite center under the thalamus, which naturally leads to a loss of appetite. This is more common in playful children.

2. Children have irregular eating schedules and are given too many snacks, which causes the appetite center to be stimulated for a long time and then turn into an inhibited state.

3. Due to picky eating habits, certain rare elements (such as zinc, copper, iron, and calcium) are lacking, causing the enzymes involved in the metabolism of body tissues to lose their activity, which naturally leads to poor appetite.

4. Parents place excessive restrictions on their children’s activities. Because of too little exercise, the body consumes too little energy and lacks hunger, so people don't want to eat.

5. Parents force children who eat less to eat, or even resort to extreme measures such as beating and scolding, which causes psychological depression and a decrease in appetite.

6. Some children suffer from various chronic diseases or intestinal parasites without receiving proper treatment.

To boost children's appetite, we can start from three aspects: people, things and things.

Human aspect: When children begin to learn to eat, you can develop the habit of regular meals for the whole family, and do not let children eat snacks before meals to avoid affecting their appetite for the main meal.

Food: It can enhance the taste and variety of dishes. The hot summer weather will affect the appetite of adults and children to some extent, so the cooking method can be replaced by cold dishes to make the taste refreshing; or adding fruits such as tomatoes, pineapples, mangoes and other ingredients to the dishes can also have an appetizing effect.

In terms of materials: using cuter tableware or tableware that children like and choose themselves will increase children's interest in dining. To cultivate children's correct eating habits, it is necessary to correct their bad habits of eating snacks and drinking cold drinks in a step-by-step manner, set an example yourself, and try to let the whole family enjoy the fun of dining together.

What should you do if your seven-year-old child has a poor appetite? Parents should observe what food the child usually eats, what food he hates, etc., and also pay attention to the eating habits of each meal. Whether the child's poor appetite is caused by disease or improper food combination, etc. After finding the root cause, make reasonable plans, so that the diet can be adjusted to change the child's appetite. If it is diagnosed as caused by a disease, symptomatic treatment should be given, and the child's appetite can be restored.