It is advised not to put pressure on children to force them to eat food, and to force them to finish their meal completely, so that their relationship with food does not become more complicated, and eating different meals becomes a punishment for the child.
We review through the following points the most prominent causes of anorexia in children:
Anxiety: There are other symptoms of anxiety other than not wanting to eat, such as difficulty sleeping due to a specific problem facing the child; Whether it is normal anxiety about school tests, or if the child is suffering from abuse at home or school.
“Anorexia nervosa”: young girls suffer from it because of their fear of gaining weight and obesity, as they force themselves to voluntarily vomit to get rid of food after eating it with the family due to obsession with obesity.
Medicines: the most famous of which are antibiotics and anemia medicines, of which loss of appetite is one of the side effects. Where the taste of iron in anemia medicines increases the feeling of nausea and unwillingness to eat.
Colic: It causes loss of appetite in children when it is caused by infection with intestinal worms that enter the digestive system through contaminated food. It is also accompanied by a defect in bowel movement, diarrhea and vomiting.
