My daughter (4.5 yrs) has zero appetite. I've got her both over the counter meds and hospital meds but none seemed to work!

Eating time is one long process. She will take forever to eat and she has to be pushed! Variety doesn't seem to work either. Even the things you would say she loves [The things she normally says "I want to eat this..."], it is still a problem to get her to eat nicely.

And it is not an occasional thing.It's been some time now - nothing to do with illness. When she was below 2 years, she was a very good eater.

What's the solution? Anyone who has had this experience, how did you solve it.

Buy her a bike, Take her for a ride and by the time you come back she will be complaining of hunger and sometimes feed her like a baby.

by the way is the girl active i.e physically at school or home ?

Take her shags and let her play with hardened kids there, by lunch time she eat even the ukoko left.

Sometimes children grow heads when they are over-loved and feel no competition!


My mum did this to me in 70s and my aunt says it worked wonders.

Thanks for that advice.Watoto wakule mapera in the village,fight and do all that pertains to that.The kid will learn to cook ugali,fetch water from the river,fetch firewood etc unlike some 27year old ladies who cant cook ugali and buy ugali from Naivas westlands.