Children are malnourished when the body is not provided with enough energy, lack of nutrients and micronutrients. Most children are malnourished with poor eating and are very susceptible to diseases, leading to slow weight gain, even more malnutrition. Therefore, helping malnourished children recover quickly requires parents to be patient, have a proper care regimen and enhance nutrition in a scientific way.
Correct and sufficient nutrition
Mistakes in maternal nutrition care are a common cause of slow weight gain and malnutrition in children. Therefore, to recover quickly and improve weight, mothers need to start from a proper and scientific diet.
- Give your child enough meals: 3 main meals and 2-3 snacks / day
- Ensure 4 groups of food substances in the main meals: starch group (rice, vermicelli, pho, noodle, pasta ...), protein group (meat, fish, eggs, shrimp, crab, eel, beans ...), group fats (oils, fats), vitamins and minerals (vegetables, fruits)
- Increase dietary energy:
Calculation of energy needs of children: 1000 Kcal + 100 x Number of ages, with malnourished rickets, children need to increase energy more than normal needs to quickly restore their nutritional status. Mother should increase the number of foods in the same meal, increase the number of meals a day if the child cannot eat much at once. For children from 1 year old, in each main meal about one cup of porridge or crushed rice (30g of rice) with 30 grams of lean meat or shrimp, crab, fish, eel, frog, oyster, soybeans ..., 20 grams of chopped vegetables , 10 ml cooking oil. The snacks can be milk, yogurt, cheese, flant, fruit. At the same time, increase the amount of grease in each child's meal
Stimulate the child to eat
Malnourished children always lead to poor eating and anorexia. Therefore, mothers need to be skillful so that babies will "cooperate" with meals without feeling afraid. In order for the baby to eat well, mothers need to divide the time of meals properly, do not give snacks to remind them to feel hungry when coming to the main meal. When feeding the baby, the mother needs to be very comfortable, feed the baby according to the needs, when the baby does not eat anymore, let the baby rest, the meal must not last more than 30 minutes, the mother should be bold like that for a while. The baby eats better, the next meal he will eat more gradually because he is hungry
Pay attention to the variety of dishes, try to make the dishes on the table look colorful and delicious, your baby will enjoy eating more.
Stimulates appetite for children to absorb nutrients as well
Increase exercise
Sports and exercise regimen also plays an important role in digestion and absorption of nutrients, and at the same time helping to develop the child's height. The mother should let the baby exercise appropriate age, sunbathe every day, get enough sleep and sleep early before 22:00.
Exercise helps children digest and absorb nutrients better
Combine special nutrition
Periodic nutrition examination:
Periodic nutritional check-ups contribute very positively in monitoring the child's health and nutritional recovery. Through a health examination, a nutritionist will make conclusions, a general assessment of the physical fitness and growth of the body. From the time the baby is born to the third birthday, mothers should monitor their weight once a month on a fixed day of the month.
Baby in the golden stage is the stage of developing the best weight, height and brain, so it is necessary to take care of the child to get rid of malnutrition as soon as possible.
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