3 Reasons Children are difficult to Eat

As a parent you'll often encounter problems children are difficult to eat, sometimes even eat into the time of "war" with your child. Forcing children to eat without knowing the reason why he was hard to eat will only make it traumatized and afraid to eat. Therefore, before you make a certain decision, find out the cause of the child to eat. then, suggests some possible reasons are the following.

1. Disorders

The process of feeding occurs starting from entering the food into the mouth, then Chew and swallow, so that the skills and the ability of the system of motor movement roughly around the mouth was instrumental in the process of eating. Motor movements in the form of coordination of movements of the bite, chew, and swallow performed by muscles in the upper and lower jaw, lips, tongue, and many other muscles around the mouth.

A child could be having difficulty eating disorders of the muscles and nerves that cause motor movements in the area around the mouth. Such a condition called Cerebral Palsy, disorders of muscle and nerve function (neuromuscular disorder) that cause the occurrence of abnormalities in the function member motion, both members of the movement of the upper and lower limbs.

This disorder causes children difficult to chew, so eat into unpleasant process. Therapy is needed for children who have this disorder to train the muscle power of the motor area around his mouth, so that they no longer gets to chew on.

2. Disease

Appetite disorders can also be caused due to impaired channel indigestion, chronic or acute infectious diseases (TUBERCULOSIS, worm, etc.), food allergy, food intolerance, and so on. Digestive disorders sometimes appear to be as light as there is no disruption. Signs and symptoms that indicate the existence of indigestion, flatulence is often hiccups, is often a waste of the wind, often vomiting or like to puke when no feeding meals, easily arise vomiting especially when crying, screaming, laughing, running, or angry. In addition it is also difficult bowel movements

3. Picky eaters

A third possibility is possibility and most commonly experienced by children is, it includes "picky eaters" or a picky eater. Many of the things that caused the child to be picky eaters, distaste for, among others, against one of the members of the family, the food served looks unappealing, or want to find the attention due to pregnant women or mothers are busy with work at the Office. Usually this picky eaters happen first or only child, because they tend to require more attention from the mother. Usually they also belong to a normal and active.