Hi Doctor, Our kid is 18 months old. He is not having food properly except milk. Our doctor prescribed Zincovit Syrup(5ml per day). Please provide your solution. Also, please let us know if we need to give any medicine for intestinal worms or any other worms that may present in his stomach.
Thank you for posting your question. Low appetite is a common and overrated problem in child Chat Doctor.  First of all what needs to be known is whether actually your child does not eat well or is it just that your child does not eat as much as you expect him to. To know this you need to study the weight and height patterns of your child. If he comes in the normal range for his weight and height for age and there has been no dip in the same, you could relax knowing that your child is eating as much as his body needs in order to remain active and healthy. If there has been a fall in his weight or height, then you probably need to do something about it. You could introduce homemade food for your child and make sure it suits his palate. Trial and error would help you know what is it that your child likes to eat. Probably a change in the consistency of the food may make it more comfortable for him to finish his meals. Multivitamin supplements like zirconia it may help as they might have mild appetite stimulating effect along with supplementation of deficient vitamins. Deworming may be done every 6 monthly and a single nighttime dose of