What to do if a child refuses to eat or is anorexic

Pan Dandan, Department of Pediatrics, Affiliated Hospital of Guiyang Medical College: Hello parents! First of all, it is recommended not to easily put the label of refusal to eat disorder on your little baby! Newborn infants take milk as the main food, breast milk can completely supply the nutritional needs of infants within 4-6 months. With the growth of age, 4-6 months after the pure breast milk can not meet the nutritional needs of infants, need to gradually increase the type of diet, the transition to adult diet, called infant food conversion, formerly known as ” auxiliary food introduction “. Dandan Pan, Department of Pediatrics, Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University Ideal food introduction is not only dependent on what food is given, but also related to how, when, where and who is fed. The amount of other foods introduced should be small to large, with attention paid to the infant’s “aversion” to new foods, and several attempts should be made before success is achieved. at 9 months of age, other foods should be given 3 or 4 times a day, and the energy supply should be about 1/2 of the total energy, so the milk intake should be reduced appropriately in order to give the child room to eat other foods, and the intake of water and fruit juices should be limited. Juice intake. Allow a certain amount of time between meals so that the child can experience hunger and then feel full, and do not feed frequently. Be aware that infants have self-feeding and social and psychological roles in feeding, and do not force-feed your child to have negative feelings about eating. Your child does not eat rice but eats milk well, it is not good to explain by disease, it should be a problem of feeding method, not recommended to take a lot of digestive drugs. Meanwhile, it is important to monitor the length and weight of your child, and to consult a doctor if there is poor growth.