What should I do if my baby doesn’t want to eat? Nine mistakes your baby should avoid making when eating!

When babies don’t eat well, I believe many parents will be anxious, so as a mother, I will share with you today the nine mistakes that babies should not make when eating! For the sake of your children, please study the following carefully!

Mistakes that babies should avoid when eating - being picky eaters

"I have to chase after my baby to feed him every day!", "My baby eats very little and very slowly, and likes to hold the food in his mouth. He hasn't finished eating even when the food is cold!" Faced with the confusion of many parents, medical experts from China and the United States said that some inappropriate behaviors of parents themselves, such as excessive attention to feeding, forced feeding, and coaxing at the dinner table, may aggravate children's picky eating. If the parents themselves are picky eaters, their children will follow suit and become even more picky eaters.

Mistakes that babies should not make when eating - squatting

In Guanzhong, when it is time to eat, adults and children like to squat under the trees at the entrance of the village, in front of or behind the houses to eat. This is known as one of the eight strange things. In fact, this is a bad eating habit, which not only affects the gastrointestinal digestion of food, but also easily causes food to be contaminated to varying degrees, causing "diseases from the mouth". When you eat while squatting, your abdomen is squeezed. In addition to preventing the gastrointestinal tract from moving normally, the gas in the gastrointestinal tract cannot move smoothly up and down, causing bloating in the upper abdomen and affecting the digestion and absorption of food.

Mistakes that babies should not make when eating - overeating

Babies may suffer from gastrointestinal diseases due to overeating, hot and humid climate, etc.

Performance:

Vomiting, abdominal distension, chest tightness, and anorexia.

Mistakes that babies should not make when eating - eating salty food

Salt is the main ingredient in all seasonings, and table salt can be said to be the king among condiments. In the modern diet, children's sodium intake is gradually increasing, which is due to both excessive salt in the family's three meals a day and increased sodium content in snacks. Recently, child health experts pointed out that both healthy children and sick children should not consume too much salt and their diet should be light.

Too much salt can cause respiratory infections. According to survey statistics, more and more children are suffering from high blood pressure, and most of these children often ate salty food when they were infants. Too salty food increases blood pressure and causes edema. In addition, eating too much salt in children can also cause upper respiratory tract infections.

Mistakes that babies should not make when eating - eating fast food

At present, there is a common phenomenon among children and teenagers that they eat too fast, especially breakfast and lunch.

The survey shows that 20.3% of children finish breakfast within 5 minutes, and 85.5% of children finish breakfast within 15 minutes; lunch is also quick, with 18.3% of children finishing lunch within 10 minutes, and 72.5% of children taking no more than 20 minutes to eat lunch. Only dinner can be a little more leisurely, but nearly half of the children and teenagers still finish dinner within 20 minutes.

Mistakes that babies should not make when eating - eating sweets

The sugars that people often eat in daily life include white sugar, brown sugar, rock sugar, fruit sugar, etc. These are all extracted from sugarcane or beets and are collectively called sucrose. Although children like to eat sweets, they should not eat too much sugar.

Eating too much sugar can cause malnutrition in your baby. Sugar is a pure energy food that contains almost no other nutrients. It has been determined that every gram of sugar can produce 4 kilocalories in the body, so eating sugar often causes people to eat less. As a result, although the body needs a lot of calories, other nutrients such as protein, fat, vitamins, minerals, trace elements, dietary fiber, etc. are insufficient, which will cause nutritional imbalance over time.

Mistakes that babies should not make when eating - eat and watch the food

First, it can easily affect appetite

In addition to physiological factors that can cause appetite, external factors can also enhance appetite through conditioned reflexes. If people watch TV while eating, they tend to focus on the TV and ignore the taste of the food, which causes their appetite to decrease or disappear due to the suppression of TV. Over time, malnutrition will occur.

Second, it affects the digestion of food and the absorption of nutrients

When people eat, they need digestive juices and blood to help the stomach and intestines digest food. Watching TV while eating also requires a lot of blood to the brain. In this way, they compete with each other for blood supply. As a result, if both sides cannot get enough blood, they will not be able to eat well or watch TV well. Over time, dizziness and blurred vision may occur.

Therefore, don’t watch TV while eating at home. It’s best to watch TV 20-30 minutes after a meal. If you must watch TV, watch less or no programs that are emotionally stimulating.

Mistakes that babies should not make when eating - eating walking food

Eating while riding in a vehicle or walking is very unhygienic and not conducive to the digestion and absorption of food, which will affect your health over time.

In the car and on the road, there are people coming and going, and the dust is flying. Food can easily be contaminated, especially when children eat in the car. It is easy for the bacteria and viruses on the armrests to contaminate the food through their hands, and then cause illness when they eat it.

In addition, the nutrients in food must go through two digestion processes before they can be absorbed and utilized by the human body, namely physical and chemical digestion. Chewing with teeth, stirring with tongue, gastrointestinal motility, etc. belong to physical digestion; amylase in saliva, pepsin in gastric juice, trypsin in pancreatic juice, and bile, etc., digest starch, protein, and fat in food, which belongs to chemical digestion.

Both types of digestion are completed under the unified command of the brain. However, when eating while riding in a car or walking, the brain has to command both the digestive system and the motor system, and its energy is dispersed, so people often do not chew thoroughly and digest food poorly. It may also cause choking and tongue biting, causing food to accidentally enter the trachea and cause foreign matter in the trachea. Especially when eating food with a core while riding in a car, accidents are more likely to occur.

Mistakes that babies should not make when eating - eating funny food

Children laughing and playing while eating, the elderly being distracted while eating, or taking medicine due to deterioration of reflex function may cause organs to inhale foreign objects and cause suffocation. If this happens, first aid should be used to quickly remove the foreign body. Never rely on luck, otherwise it may take someone's life within minutes. But special attention should be paid to not allowing the child to make large movements at this time. Parents generally cannot remove the foreign body by themselves, and should send the child to the hospital immediately.