Babies aged 0-1 tend to eat their fingers more frequently and frequently. This is a baby's desire to explore. After the stage of eating fingers, this phenomenon will disappear. But it could also be due to a lack of trace elements in the baby's body, which makes many mothers anxious. So what is missing when a baby bites their fingers? Let's follow the editor to learn more about it in detail.
What is missing when a baby bites their finger
1. Lack of zinc. This type of child is often accompanied by anorexia, stunted growth, and myopia.
2. There are parasites in the body. Often accompanied by foreign food, emaciation, facial discoloration, and abdominal pain.
3. Psychological factors. Most of them are introverted and withdrawn children. Children who are often weaned suddenly.
4. A bad habit. There must be a reason why a child bites their fingers at the age of 14. As long as they observe carefully, eliminate possible causes, and handle them correctly, they will correct it. If it is zinc deficiency, supplement zinc; If there are parasites in the body, check the stool and deworming; Psychological factors, care and cherish more, chat more with children, and criticize less;
If everything is wrong, then we need to explain the reason to the child and stop this bad habit.
What should I do if a baby bites their finger
1. First, identify the real reason behind the child biting their finger, and then locate the true cause before using the fastest and most effective way to correct it. If you are unable to make a judgment on your own, you can rely on professional medical evaluation institutions for diagnosis.
2. As parents, it is important to pay attention to the correct feeding methods, observe and feed the child regularly and quantitatively, and not wait until the child develops certain conditions before giving them food or drink.
3. If a child grows up in a relatively single environment, or if parents are busy with work and cannot accompany their child, it is advisable to send the child to certain institutions to give the child the opportunity to play with other peers, or buy some novel and interesting toys to distract the child's attention. On the one hand, it can alleviate the child's lonely and boring experience, and on the other hand, it can prevent the child from having the opportunity or time to bite their fingers.
4. For children who have already made biting their fingers a habit, psychological reinforcement therapy can be used, which involves applying some stimulating but harmless substances, such as bitter juice, on their fingers to turn their psychological dependence into psychological rejection and help them quickly get rid of the habit of biting their fingers.
Now that parents know the reasons for biting their fingers, they can use the above to determine what caused their baby to bite their fingers, and then provide targeted treatment and psychological intervention. Do not forcefully command your baby, as it can cause psychological harm to them. Perhaps this is just a habit, and as you grow up, you will gradually change this bad habit on your own.
