hi! my son is 3.5yrs, he doesnt chew food at all. He just swallows it. Because of this he doesn't eat food himself, everything i hv to make him eat

please suggest how to make him learn to chew

Question

hi! my son is 3.5yrs, he doesnt chew food at all. He just swallows it. Because of this he doesn't eat food himself, everything i hv to make him eat

please suggest how to make him learn to chew

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.
Supfeplements like iron supplements and multivitamin with lysine like syp zincovit CL can bed given for 1-2 months to increase the appetite. 
Diet counselling is also very important .

Accepted Answer

You Actually should teach your child how to choose the food you eat a bite and show it to your child how are you are to eat the food this is how your child is going to learn it slowly gradually how to chew the food properly so that is one of the best ways to teach your child when