How to Detect Malnutrition in children under five years

Children are a trust from Allah that not priceless. The mandate requires us to make them as children who Salih. To realize there are several factors that must be met, including providing sufficient and good nutrition to children so they can grow with the perfect, healthy and smart. That way, it will make them readily established to deepen the religious sciences of Allah. do not care about us on the nutrition of children, would create a state of nutrition they get worse.

Lately, many children who experience malnutrition situation in some places. In fact, found no cases of child mortality because of malnutrition problems less attention. Malnourished children under five conditions is extremely unfortunate. Therefore, growth and development as well as his intelligence is affected by nutrition. Malnutrition conditions are not necessarily associated with poverty and the unwillingness of food, while not denying poverty and laziness is a factor that often become the cause of malnutrition in children.

In addition, parenting factors are also decisive. Children are cared for by his own mother with a loving, high awareness of the importance of nutrition and breastfeeding, and always pay attention to health-especially educated; the child will not suffer bad nutrition. While there is a phenomenon that currently, most children are separated far away from a busy mother with solid reasons. Then they handed the child to the person caring less attention to nutrition and health of children. If such a situation, it is likely the child will experience poor nutrition. Therefore, the parents, especially mothers, should still pay attention to nutrition and health of children in the middle of their busy day-to-day activities, as well as good exercise for them.

Definition of Malnutrition

Malnutrition is a condition in which someone stated the lack of nutrients, or with another expression under the nutritional status of average standard. Nutrition is able to form proteins, carbohydrates and calories. In Indonesia, cases of PEM (Protein Energy Malnutrition) is one of the major nutritional problem encountered in many toddlers.
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