A picky eater is not uncommon. At each age, there are different ways to refuse new foods that mothers carefully prepare. What to do?
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Children are too sensitive to food
Getting through the picky eating “war” with your child is never easy, even though you are trying to persevere every day. Although knowing that each child will have different reasons to not be bothered by the delicious food that the mother cooks, parents still have to find out the exact cause to "treat" the root.
From the moment of starting to eat solids, many children have shown their picky "attitude"
Here are four common reasons children become picky eaters:
If your child has a snack with too many delicious foods, and he or she is full before dinner, don't expect him to enjoy the meal.
Mom needs to adjust the time of afternoon snacks and the number of snacks for babies so that the stomach can consume all before dinner.
This may come from genetics. Babies cannot adapt quickly to new foods quickly. Similar to the example of baby being too sensitive to light. Some children are uncomfortable with the taste of the food.
The only way is to give your baby a reward from repeating new foods many times until their body sticks with new taste.
Find the right cause, the problem is solved and the baby will eat well
Sometimes, babies incorporate food as a new but risky experience that causes choking and hospitalization. This is a difficult eating phobia.
There are no clear statistics on how often it occurs, but it is a psychological condition and parents need to take their child to a psychiatrist to resolve the issue.
These problems can include: Oromotor dysfunction (where the muscles of the mouth don't allow food to be properly rolled and swallowed), esophageal reflux (where food moves from the stomach to the esophagus, the tube mouth-to-stomach food) or blockage in the esophagus when the baby is very sick.
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