What to do if your child has no appetite

Many children are picky about food, so the dishes need to be varied. They cannot be fed the same food. Otherwise, they will have no appetite and will not want to eat anything, which will prevent them from absorbing enough nutrients. So let’s find out what to do if children have no appetite?

Regulate your emotions, relax your mind, slow down the pace of life, and rest in time. Special emphasis should be placed on having three meals regularly, at regular times, and in fixed quantities, and avoid overeating. Increase outdoor activities and breathe more fresh air. The diet emphasizes diversity, avoiding monotony and repetition, paying attention to the color, aroma, taste and shape of the food, and achieving a combination of dry and liquid, coarse and fine foods. Eat more appetizers. When it comes to stimulating appetite, various condiments have unique effects, so you may as well choose according to your taste. In addition, the intake of crude fiber foods should be avoided to avoid affecting gastric emptying. Also, all kinds of sweets or sweet drinks are prohibited before meals, otherwise it will make things worse. Do things that make your children happy, and their mood will be better and their appetite will also be better.

Hawthorn, plum, tangerine peel, etc. can be used to stimulate appetite; in terms of fruits, strawberries and sweet oranges have a certain appetizing effect, while grapes, bananas, lychees, etc. may reduce appetite due to their high sugar content; condiments can be selected from tomato sauce, curry sauce, bean paste, chili sauce, etc., but they should not be too "stimulating" to avoid overcorrection. Avoid or limit the use of fried foods, leeks, raw soybeans, creamy foods, sweet carbonated drinks, etc.

In summer, in order to enhance children's appetite, parents should give their children more easily digestible and less greasy food, and let their children eat more vegetables and fruits rich in vitamin C and minerals, such as watermelon, tomatoes, winter melon, etc. Every 100 grams of tomatoes contains about 29 grams of vitamin C. Eating 2 medium-sized tomatoes a day can meet the body's needs for vitamin C and minerals. For example, scrambled eggs with tomatoes are not only rich in vitamins and minerals, but also contain animal and plant proteins. Animal and plant proteins have complementary effects and can effectively improve the body's absorption rate of protein, thereby improving the nutritional value of food.

Parents can give their children some bitter foods. Bitter foods can increase appetite, clear the mind and brain, promote hematopoietic function and accelerate blood circulation. Most bitter foods have anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effects. Bitter foods are mostly vegetables, such as lettuce, celery, bitter melon, coriander, etc.

The above article introduces in detail how to alleviate children’s lack of appetite. Parents can prepare food according to their favorite foods and not force them to eat food they don’t like at all, otherwise they will have no appetite.