What Should I Do If My Child Cannot Absorb Food Properly?

Children's inability to absorb nutrients after eating may be caused by intestinal diseases, poor spleen and stomach absorption, or malabsorption syndrome. To improve children's digestion and absorption capacity, one can change the cooking methods of food, choose easily digestible foods, adjust gastrointestinal function through medication, maintain abdominal warmth, and appropriately increase physical exercise to enhance physical fitness.

1. It could be intestinal diseases or issues unrelated to the intestines.

2. Generally, children's inability to absorb nutrients after eating is caused by poor spleen and stomach absorption.

3. Malabsorption syndrome is a chronic functional disease of the digestive tract.

4. Its manifestations include primary or secondary lactase deficiency, primary or secondary glucose deficiency, etc.

5. It often occurs after acute diarrhea or respiratory infections, when digestive function fails to recover properly.

1. Change the cooking methods of food, prioritizing steaming, boiling, and stewing.

2. Choose easily digestible foods, avoiding those that are difficult to digest, spicy, irritating, or greasy.

3. If the child's gastrointestinal function or spleen and stomach are not in good condition, oral medication can be used to adjust gastrointestinal function.

4. Maintain abdominal warmth.

5. Perform appropriate exercise to improve digestive capacity.