Infantile anorexia

Anorexia is very common in children during the main symptoms are vomiting, loss of appetite, diarrhea, constipation, bloating, abdominal pain and blood in the stool. These symptoms reflect not only the functional or organic diseases of the digestive tract, and the disease often occurs when other systems, especially prevalent in the central nervous system diseases or mental disorders and a variety of infectious diseases when. It must therefore be asked in detail about the relevant history, close observation of changes in condition, proper diagnosis and treatment of their primary disease.
1. infants under 1 year of age, especially newborns have obvious poor appetite, mostly caused by the disease, with special attention to sepsis, tuberculosis, rickets and a variety of nutritional deficiency disorders. Toddlers and older children pay special attention to all kinds of bad eating habits and influence mood and other neuropsychiatric factors.

2. The family environment family situation better conditions of children, due to over-indulgent, overly concerned about the health of children and nutrition, to take trick, abuse, and more to snacks and other methods, attempting to make children eat more, results are often counterproductive; Some parents of children not enough concern, affect mood and appetite in children.

3. The extent of loss of appetite mild poor appetite may be normal individual differences or too many snacks and other bad habits caused severe loss of appetite or poor feeding often suggest the presence of underlying disease.

4. Notwithstanding the presence or absence of accompanying symptoms of mild appetite bad, but children lively, happy, full of energy asymptomatic, mostly normal. Accompanied by fatigue, listlessness, mild fever, mostly tuberculosis or other infections. Accompanied by abdominal pain and blood in the stool should pay attention to the stomach and duodenal ulcers, parasites. With slow, rough skin, less sweat and dysplasia, hypothyroidism should be noted. Accompanied by sweating, beaded ribs, square forehead, skull and other skeletal changes softening system rickets.

In case of children with anorexia, the first careful history, physical examination and make the necessary tests. Distinguish whether due to systemic or digestive diseases, whether the influence of drugs, trace elements or whether endocrine hormone deficiency. Also investigate families of children, nurseries and school environment, any adverse mental stimulation and poor food hygiene practices. Then determine the cause.
Not long-term remission of the disease, the disease may be complicated by malnutrition in children, and even cause developmental disorders. Continued growth and development of children in relative than adults need more supply of various nutrients. If insufficient supply of various nutrients, not only will affect the normal growth and development of children, so that the growth in severe stagnation, the body organs atrophy, which will certainly affect the normal immune system in children. Because of severe anorexia as a result of protein - energy deficiency in children with malnutrition, immune dysfunction can occur and reduce serum antibodies, and thus prone to a variety of bacteria, viruses and fungi and other infections, and infection often sustained, delayed healing, even life-threatening. Manifested as recurrent colds, fever, or recurrent cough, do not eat, bad move, weight gain, height is not long.