Loss of Appetite

Loss of appetite is a transient symptom in young children. Mostly it develop in the children as they start crawling and use to put everything in mouth. Mechanism that regulate hunger is quite complex and still incompletely understood. Appetite is regulated by several neucli and signaling different pathways in hypothalamus. Both appetite stimulating and appetite suppressing neuropeptides are found in hypothalamus. Poor weight gain or loss of appetite is associated with chronic illness, organic or psychogenic. There are many causes of loss of appetite. Some major causes are written below.

• Anemia
• Digestive conditions like IBS, crohon’s disease
• Underactive thyroid
• Chronic kidney or liver disease
• Asthma
• Stress, Depression
• Anorexia nervosa

Homeopathic medicine have great efficacy to treat loss of appetite- as it is a symptom of underlying disease. On our clinic a number of children and adults as well are treated successfully. This symptoms goes away with induction of initial few doses. Underlying disease treated according to the miasm of patient.