How To Know If Your Child Has Pneumonia

Loss of Appetite

Sick children usually do not have an appetite. Actually, this is true for most adults, too. However, this is often more evident or obvious with children because growing children are usually almost always hungry. Their metabolism is still amped up compared to most adults, so they get hungry faster and more often. If your usually voracious child suddenly refuses a meal that he or she would normally have devoured immediately, try to determine why.

Sometimes the loss of appetite is simply because your child is exhausted from the pneumonia and would rather just rest. While the desire to just rest is understandable, your child needs to get nourishment so that the body can heal. Try to prepare nutritious, easy-to-eat food. Determine if it would be better for your child to just eat several small meals, as opposed to a few big meals in a day. Different cases will have differing factors to consider, so there really is no uniform approach as to whether to give your child several small meals, or a few big meals, in a day. What is important is that the child gets nourished. The child has to eat and drink.