For full development and good growth to the child it is regularly and variously necessary to eat, but sometimes parents face lack of appetite at the kid. The similar situation quite often causes panic.
Instruction
1. Do not show to the child the nervousness concerning the gone appetite at it. At its presence stop all talk about what the child does not eat, you do not ask it every minute though to eat something, do not threaten and do not ask about the reasons of his unwillingness. Before meal quietly invite child to a table with all other family members. If he refuses, invite him by the end of a meal or to the following meal (approximately in three hours).
2. Lay the table beautifully, make out dishes with imagination. Involve the child in cooking: he will eat the dishes made own hands with great pleasure. Consider thematic lunches.
3. Do not allow the child "to pick" between meals. Try to feed according to the schedule that the organism "remembered" the mode of feeding and before each meal it was already ready to its digestion and assimilation.
4. If loss of appetite is connected with monotony of the dishes offered the child, try to diversify the menu, for example, adding the cut fruit, berries or raisin to porridge. At introduction to a diet of new products, you do not hurry and do not insist. At refusal - offer again after a while. Set the child an example of their use, very clearly showing as it is tasty. Gradually the curiosity will win against fear of novel.
5. At an acute infectious disease there is a loss of appetite because the organism, first of all, tries to overcome the desease. Is not enough for digestion of a large number of food of forces. You do not feed the sick child violently not to provoke indigestion and not to increase disease duration. At recovery the appetite will improve independently. During this period offer easy food, vitamin-rich.
6. Sometimes loss of appetite is connected with strong experiences (fear, offense, moving, a visit of school). Find out what event caused such emotions in the kid. Talk to the child, try to calm him. Offer tea with a valerian or a camomile. If your actions do not help, address the children's psychologist.
7. If your child seldom goes outside and moves a little, preferring to active holiday reading books or computer games, try to change his way of life. Consumption of a large number of food at small energy consumption can affect unpleasantly in the future. The lack of appetite in this case is biological "insurance" of an organism from obesity.