Many parents will reflect that their babies usually eat a lot, and meat and vegetarian staple food, nutrition is also balanced, but just can not grow fat, resistance is very low, often suffering from colds, cough constantly, so parents very headache. What is going on here?
The baby’s diet is normal but does not grow meat, there may be the following two types of reasons: 1, physiological reasons.
Genetic factors: human body shape is largely determined by genetic factors, if the baby’s mother and father are thin, then the baby is also likely to be thin.
Exercise: Some babies are particularly active, running and jumping all day, the body consumes a lot of energy, so that the baby tends to eat more but more thin, but very good physique, not love sick.
2, pathological reasons.
Baby’s intestinal malabsorption: In addition to chronic diarrhea that leads to malabsorption, some babies have pathological conditions such as sugar malabsorption, protein malabsorption or fat malabsorption, so that although the baby eats a lot, but not many nutrients can really be absorbed, resulting in growth and development is affected.
Baby has parasitic disease: If baby has intestinal parasites such as roundworm, pinworm and tapeworm, nutrients will be taken away by these abominable parasites, and baby will naturally become thinner and thinner.
Weight adjustment strategies 1. Exclude pathological causes of wasting.
The baby is prone to diarrhea, and does not look rosy, easily fatigued; when there is a parasitic disease, the baby will show a yellow face, frequent abdominal pain, grinding teeth during sleep, etc.. Mom should take the baby to the hospital for examination to see if these pathological conditions exist, so that the cause can be treated.
2.Adjust the diet appropriately.
Increase the total calories of food: For the case where the baby is relatively thin due to the amount of exercise, mommy can give the baby an appropriate increase in high-calorie food, such as meat and fatty foods, to meet the baby’s demand for energy.
The amount of food should not increase too much: If mommy thinks that giving baby more food will make baby strong, this understanding is not entirely correct.