If it is a smaller baby, finger eating may be a normal phenomenon, do not need special treatment, if it is a bigger baby often eat finger consider bad habits, mental stress, zinc deficiency, etc., mainly general treatment, drug treatment.
1. Bad habits: If you have the habit of eating fingers since childhood, has not been corrected, will develop bad habits, should help the baby to change bad habits, usually can play with the baby, with the help of tools and other methods to divert attention.
2. Nervousness: If the parents usually often reprimand the baby, in the baby is more nervous time will also eat finger, parents should change the way of education, to avoid the baby excessive tension.
3. Zinc deficiency: if the baby usually intake of zinc is too little will lead to zinc deficiency, manifested in xenophagia, often eat fingers, mainly through the drug zinc treatment, such as zinc gluconate, zinc sulfate and so on.
The baby has been eating fingers should go to the hospital in time, after the cause is clear standardized treatment, the above drugs should be used in accordance with medical advice.