Finger eating in children may be due to the lack of trace elements in the organism, such as zinc deficiency, but it may also be caused by other factors, such as mental and physical development.
1. Lack of trace elements: if the child is picky about food, indigestion, iron deficiency anemia, may be due to long-term deficiency of zinc and other trace elements, may appear to eat fingernails, eat dirt and other phenomena of xenophagia.
2. Mental factors: children eating fingers may also be due to mental or stress, thus showing finger-eating, to relieve their own nervousness.
3. Physiological developmental factors: If a child is in the micturition period, finger-eating will also occur, and he or she will perceive the world through finger-eating.
When the child appears to eat finger symptoms, need to go to the regular hospital in time, perfect detection of trace elements. After a clear diagnosis, you need to be under the guidance of the doctor to give supplemental trace elements, so as to improve the phenomenon of finger eating.