Alerts and Cause nutrition deficiency in Children

One important element for the health nutritionbody is. The body will feel refreshed and able to do various activities with good if accompanied by good nutrition intake. Since childhood, nutritional needs must be met for optimal body growth and was instrumental in the development of the brain.
Therefore, parents need to really understand the needs of child nutrition to grow healthy and optimal and avoid disease nutrition deficiency. As anticipation best, parents are obligated to know the symptoms and causes of malnutrition in children. Thus, parents can improve the nutritional intake of children.
Here is some sign of malnourished children according to a doctor, nutritionist Dr. Sri Kurniati, M.S.
Not appear special signs that can be clearly identified at this stage. The most recognizable is the decrease in body weight children became 80 percent of normal weight.
On the second stage, the child's weight dropped to 70 percent of normal weight. In addition to weight loss, parents can recognize another sign, namely the child's face is pale and her hair turned into reddish.
This stage is divided into two, namely less once (marasmus) and kwashiorkor. Marasmus is characterized by weight loss children into 60 percent of normal weight. In the meantime, kwashiorkor are characterized by: (1) weight loss; (2) leg swelling; (3) blushing and easily pulled out hair; (4) eyes are low; and (5) dry and sometimes ulcers of the cornea that is able to make the eyes burst.
In addition to the signs of kwashiorkor was marked by the arrival, some diseases, such as low blood pressure or anemia, infection, diarrhea is often the case, it crusted leather and broke out the liquid, and so chapped at the corner of the lips.
After learning its markings, You should identify all factors that lead to malnutrition in children. This is a factor in the causes of malnutrition.
The first factor that also affect the nutritional deficiency is approximately the age of children who are too close. For example, a distance of brother and sister just 1 year. The proximity of this distance makes the elder mother's attention to due to the presence of the sister taken. So that's what makes the older brother became neglected children and tend to not groomed, including intake Affairs gizinya. Thus, the older brother would suffer malnutrition.
The second factor is that the causes of child malnutrition and infection disease that is transmitted. Children who start running is usually very easy to contracting various diseases and often have an infection.
The environment is less clean very influential to malnourished children. Children will often sickly so make it malnutrition. Therefore, do not be negligent clean environment for the sake of the health of children and parents.
A mother should give food intake that is capable of sufficient nutritional needs of children. Therefore, parents, especially mothers, must have knowledge of nutrition. Nutritious foods are not always synonymous with expensive food. Cheap food has a lot of that has a high nutritional content as long as the quality is good. So, the mother must be smart choose menu makanan anak to avoid nutritional deficiencies.
5. economic hardship
Economic difficulties are factors causing malnutrition that most contrasts. Many economic factors to malnutrition. The difficult economic situation makes children rarely eat so even less intake gizinya.
In addition to these five factors, congenital disease giving significant influence against child malnutrition. Congenital diseases in question, such as heart disease and emphysema, forcing children to undergo treatment.