A child’s recent failure to eat may be related to bad habits, mental factors, digestive disorders and zinc deficiency.
1. Bad habits: If the child has developed the bad habit of eating snacks before meals and is full from snacking, he or she will not eat.
2. Mental factors: If the child has recently been in depression, nervousness or fear, these negative emotions can cause the child not to want to eat.
3. Digestive system diseases: Digestive system diseases including functional dyspepsia, pyloric obstruction and gastric ulcers can cause food to build up in the digestive tract or discomfort in the stomach after eating, so the child will not eat.
4. Zinc deficiency: Zinc deficiency affects the development of a child’s sense of taste, which over time reduces the child’s appetite, which can manifest itself in the child not eating.
There may be other reasons why your child is not eating, so it is recommended that you go to the hospital in time to improve the examination and clarify the cause of the disease, and then give targeted treatment or treatment under the guidance of the doctor.