What is low appetite? What are the reasons for a reduced appetite? Answers to these questions you will find in the article.
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Redued appetite
All the famous word «appetite» Translated from Latin
Appetitus denotes «a wish». This is a kind of feeling associated
with the need for food. With a long lack of food appetite goes into feeling
starving.
Appetite is a very wide and universal status criterion
child health, especially in the assessment of the mother. Rarely come across
child who eats a lot. More often parents and older generation worries true
or apparent decrease in appetite.
The main groups of reasons for the decline of appetite are:
- somatic (bodily-related associated changes),
- Psychogenic,
- Nervous anorexia (complete absence of appetite), puberty exhaustion.
Criteria for the harmonious development of the child and the absence of organic causes
Reduced appetite:
- good development;
- High physical and mental activity;
- portability of loads appropriate age;
- balanced nature;
- No vomiting and stool violations.
Somatic reasons for the decline in appetite:
- Eternal nutrition. For example, a dairy porridge for a child older than 1 year,
Issive in the intervals between the time of conventional meals, abundant
Eating milk and sweets.
Acute and chronic diseases of the digestive organs: gastritis, gastroenteritis,
Ulcery disease, hepatitis, etc.
- Acute and chronic infectious diseases: all viral and bacterial
Infections with an increase in body temperature, tuberculosis, urinary infection
paths, thrush.
- Glice Invasii.
- Iron deficiency in young children even without the formation of anemia (Lower
The boundary of the rate of hemoglobin in blood tests).
- Zinc deficiency.
- Brain Defeat: Anomalies of metabolism, hereditary diseases, reluctance
chewing.
- Diesefal syndrome with brain disease. At the same time, children can remain
Very active.
- Respiratory diseases with respiratory failure.
- Cardiovascular diseases with blood circulation failure
(Heart muscle defeat with tonsillitis, sinusitis, heart patterns). Wherein
Fathery states are often observed when moving from horizontal position
Vertical, nausea and vomiting in the morning, weakening the concentration of attention.
- Chronic intoxication: the reception of a large number of medicines, renal
Insufficiency, overdose of vitamin D in infants, metabolic diseases
substances, radiation therapy.
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Endocrine violations: change in the activity of the internal secretion glands.
Causes of reducing appetite
The reasons associated with the child themselves: pain, shortness of breath, imperceptible
Meals in Nurse (sweets, milk), oppressed mood (depression).
The reasons associated with the surroundings of the child are primarily with
His mother. Mom always seeks to better feed the child, and sometimes gets
Right opposite result.
The first option is Incorrect power mode:
Frightened easily excitable mother of the newborn refuses feedings
Baby, fearing failures. In such cases, medical observation is needed
for the first few feeding.
Second option: Mom offers a child too
abundant food that kid can not mascel. Mother's disappointment is the stronger,
The more effort she invested in cooking.
Third option: child of younger
wants to evaporate from excessive guardianship. It refuses from ordinary power,
If the emergence situation is associated with negative situations, if it is brewing
conflict between mom and kid himself. This happens if the mother is worshled by a child
at the table, too much limits his freedom or requires it excessive purity.
Fourth option: Dining table becomes
Most «Filming up relationships». At the same time, parents can criticize the child
For daytime mistakes and omissions at home and at school, or at the time of meals constantly
Child reminds of compliance with good manners. In such a situation, children simply
refuse food due to conflict with mom or parents.
Fifth option: food is poorly cooked cold
or child belongs without due attention. It happens during diseases
or poverty parents, with nanny or man inattention, which carries
Behind the kid.
Sixth option: Failure to eat due to oppressed
State. This happens when the child is punished for any reason;
Lost a dear thing for him; with a mountain in the family; inhibiting setting around
(hospital environment); If the kid is experiencing a feeling of shame, guilt.
Pain in the abdomen in children with psychogenic reasons
Appetite is often a trick that they use to refuse food.
But such complaints make mom's mother even more frightened and helpless. but
Additional examination and consultation of the children's gastroenterologist in such
Situations are necessary.
Vomiting during the rapting child may be
manifestation of conflict with parents. Gradually vomiting and refusal to eat can
Become interrelated, or transform into less conflict deviations:
habit bite nails, stuttering, night incontinence urine.
Reducing appetite in children requires mandatory
to pediatrician to exclude any disease. It is necessary
Conduct and additional diagnostic methods: general blood test, general analysis
urine, ultrasound of internal organs, etc. Usually elimination «somatic»
Causes, that is, the treatment of the main disease leads to the recovery of appetite
in children.
Lack of pathological conditions in children with reduced
Appetite is an indication for the consultation of the psychologist. Preferably come
on a conversation with a psychologist with the whole family to generate a single line of behavior with
kid.
