How to give your child a good appetite

  Many parents are worried about their babies do not like to eat, worry about the child’s growth and development, for this reason, parents change the pattern of cooking and cooking, chasing and feeding the child, but the child still ignore, parents really hurt their brains.  1. What is wrong with the child? Why is there no appetite for food? What should parents do so that their children will have an appetite?  First, it is important to understand what appetite is. In fact, appetite is one of the basic desires of human beings. Without appetite, human beings cannot survive and reproduce. A healthy child will have a normal appetite.  Appetite is governed by the nervous system: in the case of an empty stomach, the stomach and intestines stimulate the appetite center of the brain by contracting, which excites it and creates the desire to ingest food; on the contrary, when the stomach is full of food, the stomach wall stretches and stimulates the appetite center, which produces inhibition, and the appetite disappears.  In addition, when a person’s blood sugar level is low, it will periodically stimulate the nerve center to produce appetite, and on the contrary, when blood sugar is high, it will suppress appetite. At the same time, the person’s mental condition also directly affects the appetite, such as in the case of mental tension, even if fasting, but also do not want to eat, that is, the mental happy stimulation of the feeding center, and vice versa, the inhibition of the feeding center.  2, so to stimulate the appetite of children from the following aspects.  First, let the child before each meal to keep an empty stomach, to produce hunger to stimulate the appetite center of the brain to produce appetite, so that the child ‘hunger to choose food’, so as to prevent the occurrence of partiality, but also to make the child feel physically and emotionally satisfied after eating, this satisfaction can promote the appetite of this instinct to further develop and perfect. There are many ways to get your child to fast, such as participating in larger exercises, climbing, running, roller skating, swinging, swimming and so on. Do not give your child any snacks while doing these activities, as long as they are hydrated in time, and when it comes to mealtime, don’t let your child eat snacks first.  Second, control the amount of sugar your child eats, especially in the hour before the meal it is best not to eat sugary foods, such as milk, sugary drinks, fruit, etc., so that the child’s low blood sugar directly stimulates the nerve center to produce appetite.  Third, treat eating as a right, not a task. When parents force their children to eat a certain food, the child will produce a rebellious psychology, affecting appetite, it is common to have parents say; ‘you give me to eat this bit of food’, the child is ‘I give you to eat it’, originally appetite is a basic human desire, but by the child as a This has a negative impact on the normal development of children’s appetite.  Parents’ anxiety, anger and even reprimand because their children do not eat can make children nervous, leading to a decrease in the secretion of digestive juices and loss of appetite. The right approach is to first remind your child that eating is your right, and that a child’s right is not something you will get just by wanting it, but by doing your best to fulfill your obligations (obligations are things you must do unconditionally) to get it, such as choosing vegetables, washing dishes, serving plates, setting dishes, tidying tables and chairs, and other chores.  Then tell him that it is his own freedom to choose or give up his meal, and that if he does not eat or finish it at the specified time, he is considered to have given up his right to eat. Parents should bring away meals on time. Parents need to be true to their word and to their actions. A child is the most reasonable, and after gaining his rights with great difficulty, he will cherish his rights and will not just give them up.  In short, the child’s appetite occurs, developed not by scolding, reprimanding and other means to force to carry out, nor by spoiling, pampering to cultivate, but by scientific feeding, patient guidance to stimulate, to perfect.  In addition, more children’s anorexia is often related to improper feeding of parents. For example, adding complementary food too early or too late, the nutritional composition of complementary food is not suitable, complementary food is not suitable for chewing, not timely weaning, etc.. If a child is anorexic for a long time, most of them will have malnutrition, which affects the function of all systems in the body and will have various symptoms. For example, if the function of spleen and stomach decreases, children will have hunger without appetite, food without melting, nausea and vomiting, abdominal distension and pain, dry stools and a series of other problems, and then they need to go to the hospital for appropriate treatment.