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What Causes Lack Of Appetite In A Child?
Dear doctor, I am chandra shekar from bangalore. Sir my 1yrs old child is not eating properly at all he will take atleast 1 or 2 hours time to eat & in some times he wont eat anything pls tell any solution which makes every children eat s time to time properly. Thank you
Tue, 16 Jan 2018
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about your question i would like to tell you that loss of appetite in infants has some causes and we should find your possible cause of them....we have two common possibilities of that....first is psychological factor ..if the infant has psychological or emotional troubles that will lead to loss of appetite examples of psychological troubles is being punished for eating...if you tryed to force him to eat his desire for eating will decrease as there is someone always try to feed him even if he want and so his sense of appetite decreased because of that......2nd cause is your infant may has iron deficiency anemiaand this anemia causes always loss of appetite ...this anemia is common at that age as iron administration not enough in milk so we always give prophylactic iron therapy to infant at age of 10 month as the anemia will begin.........wish your baby healthy life
about your question i would like to tell you that loss of appetite in infants has some causes and we should find your possible cause of them....we have two common possibilities of that....first is psychological factor ..if the infant has psychological or emotional troubles that will lead to loss of appetite examples of psychological troubles is being punished for eating...if you tryed to force him to eat his desire for eating will decrease as there is someone always try to feed him even if he want and so his sense of appetite decreased because of that......2nd cause is your infant may has iron deficiency anemiaand this anemia causes always loss of appetite ...this anemia is common at that age as iron administration not enough in milk so we always give prophylactic iron therapy to infant at age of 10 month as the anemia will begin.........wish your baby healthy life
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