Why does my 3-year-old baby refuse to eat?

When a baby shows any adverse symptoms, a physical examination should be conducted first, so that when it comes to treatment, you will know what method to choose. It is very common for babies to refuse to eat. What's the matter with a 3-year-old baby who refuses to eat? If a 3-year-old baby has such a problem, it needs to be alleviated in time, otherwise it will cause serious damage to the baby's physical growth. The following is a detailed introduction to the reasons why a 3-year-old baby refuses to eat.

Why does a 3-year-old baby refuse to eat?

1. Failure to develop good eating habits. There is no fixed meal time, snacks are eaten constantly, and the normal gastrointestinal digestion pattern is disrupted.

2. Parents lack feeding knowledge, pursue high nutrition one-sidedly, lack vegetables and fruits, and feed their children meat, eggs and milk without restraint, causing indigestion.

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

4. Lack of exercise reduces metabolism and fails to strengthen gastrointestinal digestive function.

5. Parents pay too much attention to their children’s eating, which causes the children to develop a rebellious mentality and then use refusing to eat as a bargaining chip to make demands.

Don’t give in to your child’s deliberate refusal to eat

In view of the above reasons, Deng Xuemei suggested that parents can correct their children's eating problems from the following aspects:

1. Arrange meals reasonably, eat on time, and ensure hygiene; lead a regular life, get enough sleep, and have regular bowel movements; have comprehensive nutrition, eat more whole grains, fruits and vegetables, limit snacks and sweets, and drink less beverages, especially cold drinks.

2. Improve the eating environment, set a fixed place for eating, and try not to talk about things unrelated to eating so that children can concentrate on eating.

3. Strengthen mental care and maintain a good mood. Do not hit, scold, threaten or punish your child, so as not to cause the child to become disgusted and lose his or her appetite. Also avoid paying too much attention to your child's eating behavior, such as "chasing and feeding"; do not indulge your child when he or she deliberately refuses to eat.

4. Strengthen physical exercise, especially oxygen-consuming exercises such as running and swimming.

5. Do not take medicine blindly and do not abuse health care products. You can take Chinese and Western medicines to regulate the spleen and stomach and promote digestion and absorption under the guidance of a doctor.

6. Parents should set a good example for their children by not being picky about food.

After understanding why a 3-year-old baby refuses to eat, you can follow the above methods to alleviate the problem of the baby not eating. However, it should be noted that when improving the problem of the baby not eating, parents must also have good habits. If the parents' eating habits are normal, the child's eating habits will also be normal. Parents should pay attention to this.