Why are children too thin? How can children gain weight?

Usually, children's stomachs are very small, and very small children usually don't like to eat, so most children are thin. However, being thin all the time will affect the child's health. Therefore, we need to understand why children are too thin? How can children who are too thin gain weight?

First of all, we need to determine whether it is caused by malnutrition. It is best to go to the pediatric clinic to measure the height and weight to see if they are within the normal range. If the food intake is normal, but the body is still very thin, it may be due to insufficient nutrition intake in the food. Children usually have an unreasonable diet structure, partiality, anorexia, including children with low immunity, who are prone to repeated pneumonia, enteritis and other infectious diseases. Appetite will be significantly affected. If there are parasites in the child's gastrointestinal tract, then the absorption of the parasites will affect the insufficient nutrition intake. It is necessary to strengthen the child's balanced diet, reasonably match meat and vegetables, and eliminate the bad habit of partiality and picky eating. In addition, when children are allergic or intolerant to certain foods, it can also interfere with the gastrointestinal tract's good digestion and absorption process of other foods, thereby affecting weight gain.

If the child is too thin, that is, too low in weight, intervention should be mainly given from the dietary aspect. 1. Be careful not to let the child eat too much watery food, such as porridge, noodles, and corn porridge. Eat less of these, and focus on pasta, such as steamed buns, cakes, rice and other foods with less soup. 2. Pay attention to increasing the intake of meat, especially lean meat. Children should eat meat at every meal. Chicken, beef, lamb, pork, and seafood are all OK. They can be given to children alternately. 3. Pay attention to avoid eating snacks, sweets, and drinks. After eating these things, the child may provide energy to the child and thus eat less. At the same time, pay attention to increasing his outdoor activities and exercise, so as to improve the child's appetite.

If a child is too thin, it is mostly because of weak spleen and stomach, weak intestinal function, food accumulation or anorexia. The focus is on regulating the spleen and stomach to increase appetite. You can take ginseng spleen-strengthening pills orally, take an appropriate amount of warm water. If the child does not like to take Chinese medicine preparations, give sugar-containing pepsin granules, which have a very good clinical effect. Children's spleen and stomach damage are all caused by bad eating habits, such as irregular three meals a day, drinking cold milk on an empty stomach instead of food for the sake of convenience, and yogurt instead of food. After a long time, the child begins to have anorexia and abdominal pain. Therefore, it is necessary to have a regular diet, diversify food, and avoid eating raw, cold, hard, and irritating food.

Thin children have less protein and fat content in their bodies than fat children, so if you want your children to gain weight, they need to have a balanced intake of nutrition so that they can become healthy children instead of simply consuming excessive fat. The details are as follows: 1. Intake of high-quality protein and high-quality fat, eat more fish, beef, dried fruits, etc.; 2. Intake of carbohydrates, a certain amount of rice, noodles, and coarse grains need to be consumed at each meal and every day, and the intake must be balanced; 3. Oral intake of vegetables, eat more green vegetables and fungi, which contain multiple vitamins and are beneficial to balanced nutrition; 4. Except for tropical fruits such as mangoes and durian, other fruits can be eaten, but remember to take them orally half an hour after a meal and control the amount. Eating too much can easily affect appetite; 5. In addition to dietary regulation, about 30 minutes of aerobic exercise should be ensured every day, such as running, swimming, and skipping rope, which is beneficial to children's appetite and food intake.