What is anorexia? Anorexia, in fact, refers to the loss of appetite and significant reduction in food intake caused by poor eating habits or various acute or chronic diseases. Severe anorexia can affect growth and development and cause malnutrition. Anorexia should be distinguished from fear of eating and partial eating. The appetite of anorexics is normal, but the amount of food is reduced due to various reasons, such as oropharyngeal ulcers, toothache, and difficulty in swallowing. Children with bulimia are not small eaters, but they eat a few fixed foods for a long time, which makes the supply of nutrients unbalanced and does not reduce the amount of food. The root cause of anorexia nervosa is related to poor eating habits. The child has too many snacks, a lot of drinks before meals, and inattentiveness when eating, such as listening to stories or watching TV while eating. Such bad habits can disturb or inhibit the secretion of gastric acid and digestive enzymes, thus making the child’s appetite diminish. 2, some of the children’s anorexia, is the long-term parents forced to eat the evil consequences. These parents lack feeding knowledge and do not understand the differences in food intake and weight gain between individual children, as well as the growth and developmental characteristics of children; moreover, they do not understand that children also need to change their appetite frequently and are not willing to eat a fixed food for a long time. Therefore, they are often overly concerned about children’s nutritional deficiencies, lack of weight gain, and small food intake, and thus use a “high pressure policy” to force children to eat. This practice greatly affects the child’s mood, creating the illusion that “eating is equal to suffering”, and gradually formed a reflexive refusal to eat, and eventually developed into anorexia. 3, a variety of acute and chronic diseases are often accompanied by anorexia, which may be related to the role of fever, pathogens toxins. The more familiar viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, intestinal parasites, anemia and other diseases can have anorexia performance. Diseases of various body systems and organs, especially when the digestive system is involved, can reduce digestive function. What should I do if my child is anorexic? It is important to see a doctor in time to treat the root cause of the disease. For children with zinc deficiency, the rational use of zinc supplements can improve their appetite quickly, and they should diversify their recipes as much as possible and make some delicious and easily digestible food. Bad eating habits are one of the main causes of anorexia, so it is very important to develop good eating habits: 1, before meals, children should not be given snacks, so as not to affect the appetite; drinking too many drinks before meals can dilute gastric acid and digestive enzymes, the gastrointestinal tract muscle tone decreased, so to avoid; 2, when eating, to make children focus on, do not use storytelling, watching TV or other coaxing, luring means as a condition of exchange for eating. Otherwise, the child’s attention will be distracted, affecting the digestive function, and easy to form to eat on the storytelling, you have to watch TV, so that the meal is not focused and affect appetite, appetite loss is more reluctant to eat the vicious circle is generated. 3. do not force children to eat, the current psychological and clinical doctors tend to use “hunger” therapy. First of all, tell the child definitely and solemnly that if he does not eat or is not good at meals for no reason, then at a certain time (up to an hour) the parents will put the food away and he will only have something to eat until the next meal, and between meals, he will not be allowed to take any food from himself. In the beginning, the child will not trust his parents and will often fool around with them and force them to surrender, but after one or two experiences of starving his belly, he will naturally learn to behave and will consciously eat properly. Because, a smart child, is not going to let himself starve to death alive. This starvation therapy, at first glance seems very cruel, the implementation, but more effective than any drugs, the normal psychological development of the child is extremely helpful.