Why does anorexia persist and parents need to be persistent?

Video content is professionally consulted by Doctor Pham Lan Huong - Pediatric Center - Vinmec Times City International Hospital

Anorexia in children can be caused by many different causes: physiological, psychological, genetic, nutritional deficiencies, food preparation, underlying diseases, or some Other causes such as being forced to eat, changing environment ....
When the right solution is not found, persistence will make anorexia last longer. Therefore, parents need to coordinate with the doctor to determine the cause of their baby's anorexia which is the most important factor. In addition, anorexia causes micronutrient deficiency, micronutrient deficiency causes many diseases (because micronutrients play a very important role in the baby's body from diseases), when the baby has an illness, he becomes more and more anorexic. create a vicious circle.
Not to mention, parents have an impatient mentality when they see their children eat less and gain weight slowly, so they lose patience and easily change to another method (while the old method is only used for a short time, it cannot bring effective results). immediate results). Therefore, anorexia in children may continue to persist.
Therefore, in order to improve eating disorders in children, parents need to be persistent and implement CONTRACT with many solutions such as:
Change the way food is prepared more diversely, add a variety of foods in the diet. children's meals Supplement nutrients such as protein, flour, fat, fiber or delicious micronutrients such as zinc,... Provide new foods/children do not like repetition in meals main and side meals. Make children psychologically comfortable and happy every time it comes to meals. Create healthy eating habits for children

When children have anorexia, what parents need to do is to find out the cause, to completely treat anorexia, and to supplement micronutrients for their children. Among the micronutrients, zinc is an important micronutrient, directly related to the process of anorexia. Parents have both found out the cause and added micronutrients to their children. If, when supplemented with micronutrients, the child stops anorexia immediately, it can be concluded that the cause is a lack of micronutrients. If not, continue to find the cause and add micronutrients until the child stops anorexia.
Among the micronutrients, zinc is known as a micromineral that has many essential effects on children, such as:
Zinc helps stimulate taste, makes children eat more appetizing, increases absorption, increases synthesis proteins and cell division. Zinc helps maintain and protect taste cells, stimulates taste buds, helps children eat more appetizing, children crave more, improves anorexia in children. Helps support and maintain the activity of the immune system If zinc deficiency also affects the metabolism of taste cells, causing anorexia in children. Furthermore, zinc deficiency reduces the development and function of most immune cells leading to impaired immune function, increased risk of bacterial infections, and increased risk of malnutrition and mortality in children.
In addition to adding a variety of foods to children's daily meals, when parents supplement zinc for children with functional foods, it is necessary to pay attention to choosing quality products with clear origin and dose. Use should be consulted by a doctor / nutritionist.
Through some useful information that parents have just learned above about prolonged anorexia in children as well as methods to improve anorexia in children, hopefully parents and children can overcome this difficult period. in young.