When you’re sick, why does your appetite often go away?

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I’ve noticed that with certain sicknesses, I tend to go most of the day without eating anything; if not all day. Usually just for one day though, then I get my appetite back. Normally (when I’m not sick) if I go a few hours without eating I get “hangry”. I’m used to eating quite a lot throughout the day though because I have a fast metabolism. So (for me it happens with tonsillitis or stomach bugs) why is it that when you’re sick you don’t feel inclined to eat? Doesn’t your body need food for energy to fight the sickness? And why does it seem that only certain sicknesses suppress the appetite?

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Because you just feel like dying no one listens to you or actually cares about what you feel so there is no purpose to keep going on like this :/

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