How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child?

[Ichigokun]

bubbleberry9:

hi,cherrygal


thanks for your prompt reply. it shld be 17kg instead 12 kg (typo). but still considered very skinny due to his height. juz wondering could i give the medicine first or shld i consult the doc....first.

the pharmancy did mention that some parents give their kids twice a year as they eat raw food...but not sure is there any side effects...


did u give this medicine to ur kid as well....

I got a shock when you said 12kg XD

[Ichigokun]

24hr-mum:

i have tried royal jelly, kiddy pharmaton orange syrup, herb, chinese medicine, pedisure but my boy still eats very little. otherwise he is healthy.


any proven ways to improve appetite?

You can perhaps make some sour-sweet kind of drinks to appetise your child's taste buds.

Maybe mix honey and lemon into warm water and let your DS drink?

Of course, spicy-sour soup like Tom Yum can also appetise taste buds but, being small children, they wouldnt like spicy-sour food.

[bubbleberry9]

dear all,


thanks for your response..really sorrie for the typo mistake... anyway, gave the zentel to my son last weekend. not much difference after giving except.. taste abit like medicine. anyway, still monitoring his weight. this month.....

[cherrygal]

Hi bubbleberry


It takes a while for him to purge the parasites (if any). I intend to give it to my boy too. He’s so skinny that bullies in school tend to pick on him.

[Ichigokun]

cherrygal:

Hi bubbleberry


It takes a while for him to purge the parasites (if any). I intend to give it to my boy too. He's so skinny that bullies in school tend to pick on him.

If you find any parasites like tapeworms in your boy's body. I strongly advise you to visit a doctor so he can extract the tapeworm out

If I'm not wrong they use a pair of pliers to reach down into the throat and pull out the tapeworm.

Sometimes tapeworms, if they are long enough, a part of them might pop out from the butthole. One of my relatives once had tapeworms and the tapeworm popped out of the butt.

Got sent to hospital and then the tapeworm got pulled out from the anus.

My mom said it, well, whether or not it was real or just a joke, it made me laugh XD

[bubbleberry9]

Hi, Ichigokun


that sounds scary to extract the worm from the throat.somemore my kid is very freaky about such things.
anything how long after taking medicine will we be able to see the worm… the past days, I have been observing his stools but nothing come out of it, and also his butt…

as for appetite wise, he still eat as per normal… does not tht mean he does not have tapeworm…

[cherrygal]

Tapeworms may not be in his gut. Dun scare yourself. We eat worms and larvae everyday from vegetables esp those you eat outside and raw greens/fruits. No cause for alarm. Just make sure you wash and cook your vege properly and don’t eat the peel of fruit e.g. apples, pears etc.

[HC_Parent]

tigger88:

Chirunner:

To stimulate appetite and growth, you can try TCM massage for kids. One of my former neighbours' son used to be skinny n after a while I noticed he had rounded out significantly so I asked my neightbour n she recommended a TCM. I brought 2 of my sons to this TCM n they rounded out too within half a year. In fact, they even became a bit too round so much so I had to reduce their intake. She's at 2 clinics at Yew Tee and Bt Gombak and does house calls too.

Hi,

can I have the contact as well? Thanks!

What is the cost like?

[wenthena]

bubbleberry9:

Hi, dear all,

Have been reading your thread. My son is 7 years old - weight 12 kg and height is 120 cm. consider his height, he is really skinny.
Am now wondering shld i bring him to see doctor to see what is the problem, is there any good pedatretian you could recommend?
... anyway, he has not been gaining weight since dec...11 and abit worried.
though he eats 3 meals a day -
2 rice meal with pork and egg...chicken, breakfats he eats bread with milo and b4 sleep, he drinks mamil milk. but he does not seem to have any weigh gain. am now thinking is it becos of tapeworm... how to detect tapeworm or can my son juz take the medicine from the pharmacy.... any side effects.

thanks for your advice

You can just buy from the pharmacy. For kids, they get this thick white milky syrup to take in 1 dose. for adults, got tablet. also 1 dose. According to the pharmacist, humans constantly ingests parasitic eggs which hatch in the gut. (they're more worried about the eggs since the worms will not survive the digestive stomach juices.) So it's a good idea for everyone in the same household to 'de-worm' together once a year or so.. then, if you see worms in the stool, take 1 more dose.. but if there aren't any, you're good til next year.. I don't think anyone will be extracting worms by pulling them from throat or anus.. since extract 1, but still got many inside also useless. and the itchy backside thing, is cos when humans lay down to sleep, the worms will lay eggs near the anus and the stuff to 'stick' the eggs will cause the anus to itch. So the kid will scratch and it will cause the eggs to be picked up under the nails, and when kids eat something without washing hands, it goes back in thru the mouth and starts the vicious cycle... disgusting stuff but veyr treatable..

But to increase appetite, I feed my son appeton(?) with lysine, said to increase appetite. and yes, picky eaters consistently 'forget' to eat. Have to keep reminding them and offering food to them.

[bubbleberry9]

Hi wenthena and all,


thanks so much for your advice… i have learning alot myself…ya… i dun think he hv worms cos after taking the medicine… but nothing in stool.maybe i shld get the appeton(?) with lysine u suggested… and try as well… anyway is it a multivitamin syrup ?