Stunting malnutrition

Stunting malnutrition's disease overview

What is

What is a stunted body malnutrition?

stunting malnutrition is a form of chronic malnutrition shown by the condition of children with a lower height of age than the standard height, mostly occurs in children. I am under 3 years old

Stay -stunting body malnutrition reflects low quality care and nourishment in the long run of children or repetitive infections and shortage throughout generations

Children with stunting malnutrition easily become an adult of low height, more susceptible to disease than ordinary people and high risk of death

Causes of Stunting malnutrition's disease

There are many reasons for stunted children, in which the role of parents has the greatest influence on the child's condition

The main cause of stunting malnutrition is that children are not nourished properly:

Intronilly nutritious meals or unbalanced nutrients, diets applied deviations, ... minerals) leads to infections and malnutrition, and affects the development of muscle, joints, nervous system

less for children to exercise, exercise. Coming to anorexia, weak, poor sleep and slow weight gain, bone cells are not developing, making the stunting more serious.

In addition:

Malnutrition may originate from the pregnancy of the mother when the mother has a malnutrition or disease during that period, causing the fetus to grow slowly in the uterus

Causes of disease: In the first 2 years, children are susceptible to bacterial diseases such as diarrhea, pneumonia, helminths, etc. The height because of anorexia, vomiting and reducing the absorption of nutrients

Causes of genetics: families whose parents have low height, children are also likely to be stunted, but the environmental impact is still more important than

Symptoms of Stunting malnutrition's disease

Symptoms of stunting malnutrition are mainly 10% low in height compared to the standard of age.

In addition, the development of physical, intellectual, and health of children will be seriously affected

Children may be reduced by cognitive ability, intelligence, poor academic results

Children are susceptible to infections due to impaired immune system and later in danger of being overweight, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular and hypertension. >

People at risk for Stunting malnutrition's disease

Children are at high risk of stunting malnutrition:

Children with a weight of less than 2500g including premature babies because of fetal malnutrition, not only light weight is also low in length

Pregnancy lack of nutrition or diseases that make the fetal retardation in the uterus

children have poor diet and for a long time, lack of energy protein and micronutrients.

Children are not breastfed and do not eat properly

Children have many times recurring in the first 2 years of life

Mother has a low height

Prevention of Stunting malnutrition's disease

Stay -stunting preventive malnutrition should be done well both during pregnancy and children in the first 2 years of life

During pregnancy:

Mother's nutrition during pregnancy needs to ensure the needs of protein, energy, vitamins and minerals to prevent the lack of energy in the field, anemia, calcium deficiency, etc. 4 food groups

should take more iron tablets, folic acid to prevent anemia and fetal neural tube defects

To supplement nutrition in time

In the first 2 years of life:

Breast milk is the best food for young children, breastfeeding early after giving birth and completely feeding for the first 6 months

from 6 months or more to feed supplements, Supplementary foods have 4 food groups and breastfeeding for 18-24 months

do not make children abstain from excessive abstinence when they are sick, continue to breastfeed and eat many meals, eat Digesting food for children to have enough nutrients

Supplement with micronutrients Vitamin A, D, Zinc and complete immunization for children

Diagnostic measures for Stunting malnutrition's disease

Children are diagnosed with stunting malnutrition when their height is lower than normal children of the same age, namely based on the ZSCore scale according to WHO 2006:

If the height of the age <-2SD is a stunted malnutrition

1 SD is equivalent to 10% of the standard deviation

if the height/height ratio/ The weight of children greater than 80% shows that children malnourished in the past and have been adjusted to the malnutrition diet is currently just a sequelae

if the height/ weight ratio of Children under 80%, children are in progressive malnutrition, children lack many days causing weight loss and height reduction, really need help

Stunting malnutrition's disease treatments

Treatment of low physical malnutrition I need to focus on the nutrition of malnourished children in each stage:

For children under 2 years of age:

breastfeeding completely in the first 6 months, from the 7th month, it is necessary to feed the baby and have enough meals per day (6 months: 1 thin meal/day, 7-9 months: 2 months -3 dough dough/ day, 10-12 months: 3-4 meals/ day

1-2-year-old babies who breastfeeding need 4 more meals/ day, without breast milk, then Every day must drink 400-500 ml of milk

for puberty and puberty:

To meet the needs of energy children need to eat 3 meals/day, enough nutrients

provide adequate protein, fat, iron, vitamin A, C, C, D, Calcium for children to be healthy and fully develop

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