A, the causes of anorexia are common
1, gastrointestinal diseases: such as peptic ulcer, acute and chronic hepatitis, chronic enteritis, various causes of diarrhea and chronic constipation are common causes.
2, gastrointestinal metaplasia and taking drugs that cause nausea and vomiting, such as erythromycin, chloramphenicol, sulfonamides and aminophylline, can also lead to anorexia.
3, systemic diseases such as tuberculosis, collagen disease, anemia, and some chronic infections, etc.
4.Zinc deficiency and lack of certain endocrine, such as hypothyroidism, etc.
5, other such as liver insufficiency, hypertension, acidosis, uremia, and cardiac insufficiency digestive stasis.
6, such as vitamin A and/or vitamin D toxicity, which has increased more in recent years. The appearance of menstrual disorders or suspension. Excessive attention to body size and weight has become the standard for evaluating oneself. Extreme fear of obesity and a strong desire to lose weight. Weight loss becomes a habit, and even if you are already underweight, you still talk about losing weight. Rapid weight loss within a short period of time, so that the weight of 75% to 85% below the standard weight.
Second, poor eating habits or diet structure is not reasonable
Usually give the child to eat more snacks; summer intake of cold drinks, too many drinks and meal irregularities; parents pay too much attention to the child’s diet or often to force the child to eat and other undesirable factors, can affect the child’s normal appetite. Some parents spoil their children too much, in the diet structure, protein (eggs, meat, dairy) or sugar (sweets, chocolate, etc.) accounted for too large a proportion, long-term, will not only cause children partiality, picky eating bad habits. In addition, the intake of too much protein and sugar, but also can cause gastrointestinal digestion and absorption dysfunction, or make children too obese. The imbalance in the ratio of protein, fat, sugar, vitamins and trace elements in the food structure can also cause malnutrition in children and affect growth and development. Therefore, attention should be paid to training children from childhood to develop good habits of not picky and not partial food. Staple foods and dishes should be as comprehensive and diverse as possible. In addition, for small infants to give long-term stereotypical dairy, rice flour feeding, or too much food at one time can cause mild anorexia, but often a one-time phenomenon. Therefore, the timely addition of complementary feeding to infants (such as steamed eggs, rice with vegetable juice, noodles, etc.) is an effective way to enhance their appetite.
Third, climate factors
Excessive heat or humidity can affect the neuromodulatory function and the secretion of digestive juices and cause children’s appetite. Therefore, the phenomenon of poor appetite of children is obvious in summer throughout the year.
Fourth, psychological factors
The most common are some psychological factors.
1, children’s central nervous system by adverse psychological stimulation such as fright, fear, tension, sadness, crying, etc., may cause digestive disorders, appetite loss;
2, parents demand too much of their children, restrict their children’s activities, such as forbidden to play with other children, reprimand children before meals and at the table, can affect children’s mood and appetite, resulting in anorexia;
3, when the child’s appetite, the use of coercive means or intimidation methods to force the child to eat, often make the child rebellious psychology and refuse to eat;
4, over-indulgence, unrestricted accommodation of children, so that children develop a capricious, immobile to do not eat to threaten adults to achieve the purpose of the habit;
5, irregular life, children sleep too late, resulting in sleep deprivation, excessive fatigue, causing anorexia;
6, eat too much at a time, “eat hurt”, or lack of partners of the same age during meals, or poorly cooked food, or meal environment chaos, can make the child’s appetite low, leading to anorexia.
Fifth, disease and drug factors
Most diseases can cause children’s appetite to decline. Small diseases such as cold and flu, to large gastrointestinal, liver and kidney diseases. When children suffer from gastroenteritis, peptic ulcer, hepatitis or tuberculosis, anorexia is especially prominent. If a child is suffering from various diseases with fever, the digestive and absorption functions can be reduced, causing the phenomenon of not thinking about eating. Another example is the presence of serious zinc deficiency, intestinal parasitic infections, chronic constipation or long-term low-salt diet due to kidney disease, which can also cause a decrease in appetite. After taking some drugs (such as erythromycin, sulfa drugs, etc.), the stimulation of the gastric mucosa can also cause anorexia in children, which may be accompanied by abdominal pain and nausea, vomiting, etc. In addition, if children take too much calcium tablets, vitamin A or D, children may also have a loss of appetite. Generally speaking, when a child is suffering from a mild or acute illness such as upper respiratory tract infection, he or she will gradually regain a normal appetite about three to five days after the fever subsides due to fever. The anorexia caused by drug factors can be gradually eliminated after two or three days of stopping the drug. The anorexia caused by chronic diseases can be maintained for a longer period of time.
Six, poor eating habits or unreasonable diet structure
The usual children eat more snacks; summer intake of cold drinks, too many drinks and meal irregularities; parents pay too much attention to the child’s diet or often require the child to eat by force and other undesirable factors, can affect the child’s normal appetite. Some parents spoil their children too much, in the diet structure, protein (eggs, meat, dairy) or sugar (sweets, chocolate, etc.) accounted for too large a proportion, long-term, will not only cause children partiality, picky eating bad habits. In addition, the intake of too much protein and sugar, but also can cause gastrointestinal digestion and absorption dysfunction, or make children too obese. The imbalance in the ratio of protein, fat, sugar, vitamins and trace elements in the food structure can also cause malnutrition in children and affect growth and development. Therefore, attention should be paid to training children from childhood to develop good habits of not picky and not partial food. Staple foods and dishes should be as comprehensive and diverse as possible. In addition, for small infants to give long-term stereotypical dairy, rice flour feeding, or too much food at one time can cause mild anorexia, but often a one-time phenomenon. Therefore, the timely addition of complementary feeding (such as steamed eggs, thin rice with vegetable juice, noodles, etc.) is an effective way to enhance the appetite of infants.
There are many reasons why children are anorexic, which is very delayed the growth of the child, first of all, do not give him any snacks between meals, including drinks (do not be soft-hearted), you can drink water, let him smell the fragrance of the meal when he has hunger, to stimulate his appetite, do not chase, shoo, shout, scare him to make him eat, two more in the collective environment dining, more children, lively, eating is also fragrant. Third parents do not talk about what they do not like to eat in front of their children, or what is not good, the influence of parental preferences on children is great, and is deeply rooted, the fourth do not talk about it in front of the child’s face old and others, when the child’s face do not mention it again, as if nothing had happened, secretly more efforts to make the meal soft, rotten, delicious, more varied, taste, according to the characteristics of children For example, if you make a bear dumpling today, or an Ottoman bun tomorrow, and then tell him the story, there is no child who does not like to hear the story, as long as you have love, you can do the best, good luck to those who have love.