Contents:
- Medical Video: How to Avoid Picky Eaters - Stanford Children's Health
- Tips for caring for and raising toddlers who are malnourished
- Care for malnourished toddlers at home
- Care for malnourished toddlers in hospitals
Medical Video: How to Avoid Picky Eaters - Stanford Children's Health
According to Riskesdas in 2013, the number of malnourished and malnourished (malnutrition) infants in Indonesia increased to 19.6% compared to 2010. The Ministry of Health also estimates that there are still 4.7 million babies with this condition that have not been detected. If toddlers are malnourished, their growth will tend to be hampered and make them risk facing various health problems in the future. But don't worry. There are various ways parents can take care and raise toddlers who are malnourished.
Tips for caring for and raising toddlers who are malnourished
The main key to caring for and raising toddlers who are malnourished is to meet their nutritional needs. Yes! Nutrition is an important foundation that helps the child's growth process. In addition, nutrition is also important to increase your child's immunity and protect it from various diseases.
Even so, the trick of fulfilling nutrition for malnourished toddlers might be a little different from healthy toddlers. So that the condition does not worsen, children need to get appropriate care from parents and doctors.
Care for malnourished toddlers at home
Treatment at home is usually done if the child's condition is not too severe.
Some things you should pay attention to in caring for your child who is malnourished include:
- Perform an initial check on the pediatrician or child nutritionist to find out the causes as well as how to overcome them.
- Make a treatment plan with your doctor, regarding nutritious food menus, meal schedules, a list of additional medicines or supplements, and a schedule for taking medication.
- Prepare nutritious foods that are easily eaten and digested by children.
- Perform regular body checks and record them to report to the doctor. Also note what are the symptoms or important things related to the child's condition.
- Perform a doctor's checkup regularly to find out how the child's condition develops.
Remember that even if done at home, you still need direction from your doctor or nutritionist to meet the nutritional needs of children who are malnourished. Because, malnutrition is a medical condition that needs special attention.
Care for malnourished toddlers in hospitals
When the condition of the child is not possible to do maintenance at home. The doctor may recommend that the child undergo hospitalization. There, he will be given the right medicine, monitor the progress of his condition, and be assisted with medical devices if needed.
The doctor will recommend the child to follow the procedure for using a nasogastric tube to help the child receive food. Then, the treatment continued with other drug therapies so that his body's health recovered quickly.
