#asktheexpert Please dr help my child to gain weight and also increase his hb level which is low I.e 8.5 and I'm very tensed as he doesn't eat food properly

Question

#asktheexpert  Please dr help my child to gain weight  and also increase his hb level which is low I.e 8.5  and I'm very tensed as he doesn't eat food properly

Accepted Answer

Good Growth of the child is very important and for this most important is that child should take a healthy diet where its necessary to give a balance diet which should contain all the nutrition required. This is very important for building the immunity also.
 Encourage for green vegetables fruits dairy products all kinds of dal and other protein containing food items  like soyabean eggs etc.
Some nutritional deficiencies can be a cause for less appetite like iron deficiency which is most common.
Supplements like iron supplements and mgultivitamin with lysine like syp zincovit CL can be given for 1-2 months to increase the appetite. 
Diet cofunselling is also very important .

Accepted Answer

You should give a proper iron supplement to the child with that you should give more of beetroot pomegranate spinach broccoli Iron food likes sweet potato black rice these things are going to be helpful and as a deficiency will start eating up the appetite will also become better and the weight will also increase you to know that all these things are very well connected with each other