Tips to keep your baby from losing appetite in the summer

There are many reasons why your child is a picky eater, so you need to find out the reason why your child is a picky eater to fix it! One of the following ways will make your child excited to eat.

1. Do not let your child drink cold water.

On hot days, many children like to drink cold water. This not only makes children susceptible to sore throats but also makes them lose their appetite. According to consultants, drinking a lot of cold drinks and eating ice cream will increase glucose levels, which can affect the child's normal diet. Therefore, mothers should not let their children drink cold water and eat a lot of ice cream.

Drinking cold water not only causes sore throat but also increases glucose levels, affecting the baby's eating.

In the summer, mothers should give their children enough water. The way to calculate the amount of water a child needs is about 100ml/kg of body weight/day. Mothers should note that this amount of water includes water in milk and food that the child eats every day and drinks with nutritional value such as soy milk, yogurt, smoothies, fresh fruit juice. Do not give your child carbonated juice and bottled drinks. Mothers may not know this, but carbonated drinks will make children feel full and lose their appetite.

2. Supplement natural vitamins

Children are always active. This causes their bodies to sweat a lot in the hot summer. When sweat is secreted, a certain amount of nutrients are also lost. Therefore, in the summer, children's bodies are very susceptible to vitamin deficiencies, especially vitamins B1, B2, B6, C and PP.

Vitamin supplements help keep your baby healthy and increase appetite.

The consequence of vitamin deficiency is that the baby's immune system will weaken, leading to anorexia. Therefore, to supplement the best natural vitamins for your baby, mothers should focus on giving them fresh fruit every day. Fruits such as watermelon, strawberries, avocado, papaya or pineapple... are very popular in the summer and are good for your baby's health.

In addition, mothers need to supplement vitamin A from fruits and vegetables such as papaya, carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, etc. to prevent dry skin and dehydration, and to avoid constipation.

3. Rich menu

Children are just like adults, if they have to eat the same foods over and over again, they will become bored with their food, gradually leading to anorexia. Therefore, mothers should regularly change their children's food to stimulate their appetite, and they will eat more.

Rich menu stimulates baby's appetite

In addition, the weather is hot so the baby's nutrition needs to help cool the body. Give your baby more cooling foods than usual such as squash, spinach..., supplement the daily menu with cool snacks such as lotus seed tea, yogurt, fruit smoothies...

4. A good night's sleep

Sleeping well and deeply will help your baby's body become healthier, his brain become smarter and more alert. In addition, sleeping well will also help your baby eat better.

Good sleep also helps children eat better.

Therefore, mothers should supplement foods that help the brain sleep deeply such as:

- Foods containing tryptophan (found in rice, cereal grains).

- Vitamin B (found in oats, barley, rye, nuts such as almonds, walnuts, flax seeds).

- Foods containing calcium and magnesium (such as milk, bananas, peaches, apples, walnuts…).

The ideal menu for your baby's daytime sleep is milk, cereal, honey fried bananas, lotus seed tea...

5. Stimulates appetite

Zinc helps babies absorb protein more easily and increases appetite.

Zinc helps children eat better and absorb protein more easily, so mothers should pay attention to supplementing natural sources of zinc from food for their children: peas, radishes, soybeans, lean meat, clams, shrimp, crab, flour...

In addition, cool and vitamin-rich vegetables such as Malabar spinach, amaranth, and Malabar spinach also stimulate your baby's taste buds.

According to Tri Thuc Tre - nt