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1. What factors cause anorexia in children?

1. Bad eating habits. Bad habits such as too many snacks, drinking a lot of drinks before meals, and inattention when eating can disrupt or inhibit the secretion of gastric acid and digestive enzymes, causing children to lose appetite.

2. Long-term forced eating. Parents are overly worried about their children's nutritional deficiencies, slow weight growth, and small food intake, etc., and force their children to eat, which greatly affects the children's emotions and creates the illusion that eating equals suffering, and gradually develops a conditioned reflex refusal to eat, which eventually develops into anorexia.

3. Various acute and chronic diseases. Familiar diseases such as viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, intestinal parasites, and anemia can all cause anorexia. Children with anorexia should seek medical treatment promptly and should not use medication indiscriminately to avoid delaying the condition.

4. Zinc deficiency leads to anorexia. If no other explainable reasons can be found for children with anorexia, blood zinc or hair zinc concentration can be measured.

2. The following six steps can be used to prevent anorexia in children:

The first step: ideological education.

Tell your children that every food has its own effect. Only by eating a balanced diet and eating a little of everything can you grow up healthy, tall and strong, and be less likely to get sick. Moreover, you must eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner on time to form a habit. Otherwise, your body will not know what to give you to secrete the tools to digest food. After the ideological work is done, the next step is started.

The second step is to make "three rules" for eating:

No more reprimanding and scolding them before eating, no longer forcing them to eat a certain amount of food, according to their own feelings, you can Decide how much to eat. But you can make three rules with your children: 1. You can’t watch TV, talk, or play with your children during meals. To "eat without talking and sleep without talking" 2. Eat a little of each food, including pasta, vegetables, meat, porridge or soup, to achieve balanced nutrition. 3. Eat some fruit after meals to supplement vitamins and dietary fiber to keep bowel movement smooth. And asked them both to solemnly sign the commitment letter. To prevent denial.

The third step is to lead by example and set a good example.

Some parents like to watch TV, watch videos, and be picky. In order to lose weight, sometimes I just add a little bit. He rarely eats staple food or eats less of it, and he also has severe picky eating problems. There is no way for the children to grow up healthily. You must abide by the three chapters of the covenant just like your children.

The fourth step is to spend some time learning cooking skills.

Some parents cook more casually and monotonously. They cook whatever they like. But now in order to arouse children's interest in eating more food. I specially bought a children's cookbook, which introduces many simple and easy-to-learn recipes for foods and dishes that children like. In terms of the nutritional combination of food, variety selection, color and taste, use the color, aroma and fragrance of food to tempt children's appetite.

For example, make a vegetable salad from the vegetables that your children dislike most, and add some fruits to make the colors richer; add some vegetables when making fruit puree, and it will become a nutritious and delicious fruit and vegetable puree. Fruits and vegetables are delicious and look good together.

The fifth step, blinding method:

For some children who really don’t like to eat or have smelly foods, for example, some children don’t like to eat fish and shrimp, but fish and shrimp are harmful to children’s brains. Development is very important. You can try the method in the recipe, beat the fish and shrimp into foam, and stuff it with seaweed that your children like to eat.

Step six, praise and encourage method:

Children like the praise from their parents. In this positive energy environment, the child will be in a very good mood and have a great appetite. When the child is eating, parents should not scold or reprimand her, force her to eat, but give appropriate encouragement, "You did a very good job before eating today. Your posture when eating is very elegant. You eat more than yesterday. Look, you have eaten." There are so many fruits, so today is so beautiful." etc. The children no longer find ways to get away when it's time to eat, but feel that eating has become an interesting thing.

This is what I have summarized, the causes of anorexia in children and tips on preventing anorexia. I hope it can help you.