Refusal to eat

Introduction In addition to breastfeeding, a 1-year-old baby can eat a lot of food supplements, but the appetite of each child has a big difference in the preferences of different diets. Some babies like to drink milk, while others prefer to eat salty. Flavored and scented foods generally meet the needs of heat and nutrients under normal conditions. If the child is not interested in the food that he or she likes, the amount of food is also reduced. This is the loss of appetite. If you dont open your mouth when you give food, or you just want to spit it out, or shake your head while feeding, push it away. This is obviously a refusal to eat.

Cause

The loss of appetite and refusal of the baby is mostly due to the disease. Many systemic infectious diseases (such as various acute and chronic suppurative infections, viral infections, high fever, nutritional anemia, etc.), digestive tract diseases (such as dyspepsia, gastroenteritis, hepatitis, etc.) will reduce the secretion of digestive juice And digestive function decreased and the appetite decreased, and even refused to eat, some local inflammation, such as herpetic stomatitis, pharyngitis, glossitis, etc., often cause food refusal due to pain during eating. This kind of refusal to eat is not without appetite, but because you want to eat and dare not eat, so children often appear to be irritated and cry when they eat.

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If the child is no longer interested in the food that is particularly fond of eating, the food intake is also reduced compared to the previous one. This is the loss of appetite. If you give your child food, dont open your mouth, or just eat it and spit it out, or shake your head when feeding. Dodging, the performance of pushing away by hand, this is obviously refusing to eat. If necessary, go to the pediatrics of a regular hospital for examinations, such as intelligence tests, brain MRI, and so on.

Differential diagnosis

The refusal of the baby is distinguished from the refusal of the mental patient.

The most important reasons why mental patients refuse to eat are:

(1) Subject to hallucination: Some patients have imperative auditory hallucinations. The content of auditory hallucinations is that he is not allowed to eat. He obeys orders and does not dare to eat. Some patients have auditory hallucinations that tell him: "It is poisonous in rice or in water. Sometimes I can smell the smell, scared him not to eat...

(2) Subject to delusions: Some patients have murdered delusions. Some people think that some people are poisoned in the water of the rice, and they dare not eat. Some patients have self-incrimination and think that they are guilty and not worthy of eating.

(3) Depressed patients have low mood, do not think about diet, and seriously want to starve to death without eating, attempting to commit suicide.

(4) Patients with loneliness retreating or dementia patients often have poor self-care and often do not know how to eat.

(5) Patients with mild stupor violations have difficulty eating and need to be fed. Severe stupid patients do not move and cannot eat. They must be sent to hospital for treatment.

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