Causes of baby anorexia

Babies are at the age of growing up, so the baby's nutrition supply must be sufficient. If the nutrition during childhood cannot keep up, the baby will easily suffer from malnutrition and slow growth. Some children may not even grow tall. However, some babies may have anorexia. There must be a reason for the baby's anorexia, so parents should check the baby in time to see if there is a problem with the standing committee. So what are the reasons for the baby's anorexia?

1. Irregular diet, no fixed meal time, prolonged or shortened meal time, and normal gastrointestinal digestion patterns are disrupted.

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

3. Constant snacking, constant mouthfeeling, and a busy stomach will lead to gastrointestinal motility and secretion disorders.

4. High-calorie foods such as beverages, ice cream, and chocolate keep blood sugar at a high level without feeling hungry.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Lack of exercise leads to reduced metabolism and failure to strengthen gastrointestinal digestive function.

8. Taking too many medicines or abusing health supplements will increase the burden on gastrointestinal digestion and absorption.

1. Infants must be given complementary foods after 4-6 months. On the one hand, it is to enhance the baby's nutrition, and on the other hand, it is to exercise the baby's chewing, swallowing and digestion abilities, and to prepare the baby for the transition from liquid food to semi-liquid food and then to solid food until weaning. If complementary foods are not added in time and the chewing ability is not fully exercised, it may affect the baby's subsequent eating and cause anorexia.

2. Lack of trace elements and zinc deficiency are the first reaction of many parents when they find that their baby has anorexia. Indeed, the lack of vitamin B and trace element zinc can cause a decrease in the baby's taste function and gastric mucosal digestive function. Parents can supplement trace elements for their babies appropriately, but not too much.

3. Drug abuse: Some parents will give their babies excessive nutritional medicines and tonics. If a child has a minor cold, he or she has to go to several large hospitals and ask experts to prescribe repeated prescriptions, and often more than two medicines are required to be taken at the same time. If the baby takes several different medicines at the same time, it may sometimes aggravate the effects of certain medicines (such as erythrotoxin, etc.) on the stomach, thus causing anorexia.