How can we encourage our son, who stopped eating a staple food and is underweight, to eat?
He is 2 years and 1 month old and weighs 10.5 kg, which is underweight for his age. We consulted the doctor: he said that he is active, so he thinks there's no problem. He drinks around 500 ml of milk with a health drink powder added, and he eats currants, bananas, mangoes and biscuits, but no rice.
We think he'll gain weight if he starts eating properly, but he has suddenly stopped eating rice. Please advise us on how we can encourage him to eat so that he can achieve a healthy weight for his age?
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First of all, Kids this age go through growth sprouts. For a certain period say 1-3months they won't eat properly and lose weight big time. Then they suddenly change.
Secondly, rice is not the only best food you can give your child. I would also recommend trying few other items in the list below:
Egg White - boiled
Different varirty of pressure cooked whoel grains such as Kala Channa, Whole Moong, etc
Raagi(Millet) idli, dosa, cereal mix with milk
Atta (Wheat) halwason etc
The kid will grow well if he eats on same time everyday and sleep well (12hours a day for your kids age). Consistwncy is very important.
Check whether a vitamin supplement is (medically) appropriate for his age. It was the usual solution when I was a kid, but I'm not sure whether it is accepted practice in the USA.
Something else is to lower the milk consumption (but not liquids overall).
When I don't understand where I am going wrong when my kid's eating and I feel that even the doctors advice is not working then I am very quick in changing the doctor. I keep changing the doctors until I find a doctor who has solution for the child's problem. Try to change the doctor/s if necessary.
It is not your doctor is a good/bad doctor but it seems to me that some doctors have the knack of finding a solution for some problems sooner than others.
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