Detect early and nurture malnourished children P4

Feeding children with malnutrition

Malnutrition children often suffer from poor appetite, or have trouble digesting or getting sick. Children should eat a lot of meals a day, each meal a little to ensure the amount of food needed for children, and provide more energy than normal children.

• Infants under 6 months: Breastfeeding, lactating babies should be breastfed, if not enough breastmilk to feed high energy formula (1ml of milk provides 1 kcalo).

• Babies 6 - 12 months: besides breastfeeding need to eat 2-3 extra meals, if not enough breast milk for high energy formula. Every day, children should drink 400-500 ml milk without milk, use high-energy milk.

• For children 1 to 2 years apart from breastfeeding, they need to eat 4 more servings a day, 400-500 ml daily without milk.

• For children 3-5 years old need to eat 5 - 6 meals a day and 500ml milk.

In the diet, in addition to rice to cook flour, porridge or rice needs to add meat or fish, eggs, beans, greens and grease or oil. Eat more fruits at meals, alternating between meals. Some children have poor diet. Therefore, add fat or oil into the soup, fry vegetables to cook for children ... to increase the heat in the child's meal. In addition, enzymes can be liquefied in germinated bean sprouts (bean sprouts, malt) to increase the energy intensity of the meal, reducing the amount of food eaten in one meal. For children over 6 months should be added moderate amount of yogurt (1/2 to 1) every day after regular meals. How to prepare meals should be consistent with the child's taste, always changing the food to eat delicious. Need to go out to sunbathe 15 - 20 minutes in the morning (about 8 - 9h) sunny days. Clothes for children choose cotton, easy to absorb and not tight. The place needs to be clean, airy, bright.