Is the baby's loss of appetite caused by emotions? What are the ways to increase the baby's appetite?

The incidence of anorexia in children is not low, about 10% to 15% of children have varying degrees of loss of appetite and anorexia. Among them, emotional disorders can also cause loss of appetite in children.

There are many factors that lead to loss of appetite or anorexia in children. In addition to food, illness and capriciousness, mental factors should not be ignored. American physiologists' research on the relationship between emotions and appetite shows that children's emotional changes such as anxiety, depression, fear and anger can inhibit digestive function, leading to a decrease in digestive juice, enzyme activity and appetite, which can lead to anorexia in the long run.

Therefore, when children have a poor appetite or anorexia, we should not only consider whether the food is suitable for the child's taste, whether the child is sick, capricious or spoiled, but also whether he is affected by bad emotions. Through talking with the child, observing the child's behavior, understanding the child's recent ideological activities, discovering the key to the child, helping the child eliminate bad emotions, so as to improve and enhance the child's appetite.

Whatever the reason, you can try the following tips to increase your baby's appetite:

1. Massage:

Massage the spleen meridian on the inside of both feet. Acupoints: Yinbai (well point of spleen meridian), Duowei (ying point of spleen meridian), Taibai (transport point and origin point of spleen meridian), Gongsun (collateral point). The source of spleen meridian is on the feet, and massaging these acupoints can fundamentally improve children's weak spleen and stomach.

2. Take a bath before meals:

In the summer mornings and evenings, let the baby go outdoors to exercise, play, consume calories, and remain excited. If you give the baby a comfortable bath first to relieve the baby's emotions, just like an adult taking a hot spring bath to relax the whole body, naturally the appetite and mood can be as good.

3. Chiropractic:

Massage both sides of the baby's spine from head to tail. "Pinching the spine" therapy: can regulate yin and yang, qi and blood, internal organs, meridians, and strengthen the body. It has the best effect on malnutrition, indigestion, anorexia, diarrhea, and constipation. It should be performed in the morning or 1 hour after dinner, once a day, and a course of 6 days.

4. Eating habits:

Eating regularly and quantitatively, paying attention to the color, aroma, taste and type of food, and creating a quiet and pleasant dining atmosphere are also good ways to help children develop good dining habits and appetite. At the same time, the diet should be reasonably matched, mainly with heat-clearing and detoxifying, easy-to-digest foods. Stay away from sugary drinks, and control cold drinks and desserts.

5. Probiotic supplementation:

The right amount of probiotics is like an "appetizer" that can break down large molecular proteins and fats in food and help children digest and absorb. At the same time, supplementing children with special vitamin B complex can also increase their appetite. Because vitamin B complex is an "energy vitamin", it can promote gastrointestinal motility and increase appetite.

6. Refuse snacks before meals:

If the baby's food volume is small, stop all snacks, all water has a taste, all kinds of tasted water are bad, especially within an hour before meals, do not give the baby any snacks. It is not easy to develop a good habit, sometimes parents have to be "cruel". Some parents do not agree with this approach, fearing that it will damage the child's stomach; I clearly answer: "No"; because a bad stomach is caused by long-term bad habits; for this reason, we must also develop the habit of the baby eating well.

Diet therapy for loss of appetite:

Plum and Tangerine Peel Tea

Ingredients: 3 grams of black plum, 5 grams of tangerine peel and amomum.

Efficacy: Black plum can relieve fever, promote salivation, relieve vomiting, and promote appetite; tangerine peel can regulate qi and strengthen the spleen, and aid digestion; Amomum villosum can eliminate dampness, promote qi, warm the spleen, stimulate appetite, and stop diarrhea.