Why do babies become anorexic? In fact, anorexia is not a situation that babies are bound to encounter in their growth and development, it is only something that some babies may encounter. However, more and more children are becoming anorexic recently. Even so, “anorexia” is not a medical condition. If anorexia is analyzed in detail, it can be divided into “physiological” anorexia and “pathological” anorexia. The so-called “pathological”, that is to say, the child’s body disease phenomenon, the child in addition to anorexia, there will be corresponding other abnormal manifestations, such as: sleep disturbances; poor spirit; easy to cry, such as changes in daily life and fever; vomiting; diarrhea and other disease manifestations. This kind of anorexia is very easy to get parents to pay attention to, and it is also easy to think of seeking medical help. It is very rare, and most children develop anorexia while maintaining a normal or almost normal routine. For this reason, it has been labeled as physiologic anorexia. In fact, physiological anorexia can be divided into two parts: true physiological anorexia and psychological anorexia. True physiological anorexia refers to a temporary disinterest in or resistance to eating due to problems in the child’s physical development that cause discomfort after eating. In the first 4-6 months of life, the child is more likely to develop a phenomenon that causes frequent crying in infants – infantile colic. This is a physiologic abdominal pain that occurs when the child’s gastrointestinal motility and other functions are not yet mature. There is also the discomfort caused by swollen gums when the child is teething, which causes discomfort when eating milk. Further, infants who are intolerant or allergic to cow’s milk proteins may also experience abdominal discomfort after consuming infant formula. The common feature of these phenomena is severe crying or aggravation of crying during feeding. The most common reason for the presence of anorexia in children is psychological. Due to the interference of some factors, the child’s interest in breastfeeding, especially formula feeding, decreases, and there is a decrease in the amount of milk eaten, which is therefore labeled as “anorexia”. 1, the environment is too noisy when the child is eating. As the baby grows up, the nervous system will gradually mature. This is reflected in a growing interest in the outside world. However, when parents feed their children milk or complementary foods, they often say things to encourage their children to eat well, and other parents may also walk back and forth or other actions that may affect the infant. Since the infant is unlikely to understand the meaning of the words parents say to encourage him to eat, he can only understand the actions that adults pronounce. Therefore, the child learns to “talk” by pronouncing words when drinking or eating. If a parent moves or makes other noises while the child is eating, the child’s attention may be diverted. Therefore, parents can guide their children to chew by eating or chewing food in their mouths, such as gum, while the child is eating. When the child is drinking milk or eating, it is best for the parents not to talk or do other actions, so that the child can be more focused on eating. 2. There is a big difference in flavor between the foods you eat. Your child will be breastfed or formula fed as soon as possible after birth. However, when the child is 3-4 months old, many parents will add juices, calcium water, and other liquids that taste much heavier than breast milk or formula, and these liquids are also fed through the bottle. This can very easily lead to confusion for your child. Why is there such a difference in flavor between the same bottle-fed liquids. When a child’s sense of taste develops somewhat, they will make the choice to avoid milk and wait for the heavier flavored feedings such as juice. Anorexia due to differences in food flavors can only be solved by adjusting the flavors. For example, add some fruit juice to the formula, stop bottle-feeding with fruit juice, and gradually reduce the amount of fruit juice added to the formula after the child accepts the formula again, and finally stop adding fruit juice. In order to continue to provide your child with the nutrients found in fruit, you can use pureed fruit and spoon feeds. Recognition of “anorexia” is not so much about how to properly treat or correct it, but about how to prevent it. Early recognition and treatment of the disease can prevent the child from developing food aversions. In addition, creating a quiet, specialized eating environment and avoiding large differences in taste between foods, especially foods from the same feeding regimen, are also essential to ensure that your child eats well. Although anorexia is not a disease, it can cause growth retardation in children, and especially cause great psychological stress to parents. Hunger: the best appetizer Children eat well in order to grow well, in order to let the child can eat more mouthfuls, parents do not have a lot of brains. But sometimes things go against your wishes, the more you want him to eat well, the more he is indifferent to your carefully matched food! As a result, the child’s growth is naturally unsatisfactory.