To teenage age some parents do not face such concept as lack of appetite at the child, but at approach of 13-14 years the teenager suddenly changes the eating habits and persistently refuses food. How to increase appetite at the teenager, specialists nutritionists will answer.
Instruction
1. Find out what sharp loss of appetite at your growing-up son or the daughter is connected with. Perhaps, it is caused by the fact that the daughter unexpectedly fell in love and now protects a figure, and it seemed to the son that he too thick and therefore he decided to lose weight. That is first of all take care of psychological state of the child, learn whether are necessary to it the help of the children's psychologist, your parental understanding.
2. Exclude a possibility of such diseases as violation of work of bodies of a digestive tract, pancreas. Learn whether the endocrinological system of an organism is normal, whether the teenager has stresses, a nerve strain. And then start the following methods of improvement of appetite.
3. Enter the vitamin structures or dietary supplements containing zinc into the child's food. The shortage of zinc in an organism breaks taste, sense of smell, reduces appetite. At normalization of amount of zinc in an organism the appetite will be restored within 1-2 months since the beginning of intake of medicine. The vitamin medicines in capsules containing lemon and amber acids increase also appetite.
4. Try to provide to the teenager physical activity after classes at school. Write down him in sports section, on swimming, you go on foot with it more, walk in the fresh air. If loves animals, buy it a big dog that it with her walked every day on two times. Remember that the inactive way of life reduces appetite at children.
5. Beautifully serve dishes, do them multi-colored, decorate beautifully that it was interesting to child to be accepted to food. Do not punish on uneaten food, for unwillingness is. Do not force to eat the child if he does not want it, but also try not to allow him to have a snack fast food, washing down it with Coca.
6. You do not keep in the house the unhealthy food and drinks destroying appetite like sausages, sausages, chips, sweet sparkling water, candies, cookies, cakes.