Child nutrition, Key Concern Parents

Caring parents be the deciding factor nutritional condition of children. Abundance of food in the house would be useless if not properly processed by the mother or other family members. When this happens, no wonder if children are malnourished, and even malnutrition. Especially if the child is fed only improvise or even snacks to deceive the stomach to fill.

Malnutrition occurs because the child’s lack of attention from parents. Children abandoned and nutritional needs are not considered because their parents more often in the garden. Not because there is no food in the house.

Not aware

Parents often do not realize their children are malnourished because of malnourished children could still move normally and agile so that they then left into the garden and entrusted to a relative, parent, or in-laws.

Every mother would want her child healthy, but because economic conditions are difficult family helped him to earn a living. Attention to the child to be reduced, including how to cook and feed the right.

Pattern of feeding behavior to children, especially post-0-6 months of exclusive breastfeeding is important because the age of 2-3 years including the critically vulnerable malnutrition. In general nutritional condition of children aged 6 months to 1 year is still good, but after one year of age are usually a lot of malnutrition. 1 year in the breast usually began less, while the additional food intake is nutritionally inadequate.

Minimal understanding

It is not prepared food with good ingredients, according to nutrition experts due to a lack of understanding the following types of nutritious foods cooking way. Stressed there was no relationship between child malnutrition and food availability factor.

Causes of malnutrition are complex, not just the problem of food shortages. Access to food, health care, and feeding behavior patterns that take effect nutritious.

Absence of mothers who give breastfeeding and complementary feeding to prepare for a busy working in the garden as well as the lack of awareness of self-care and environmental hygiene are also influential.

Unfortunately, malnutrition has always been associated with lack of food, so when there is malnutrition, local government response is to ask for food aid. From the field findings, the child died of malnutrition is not simply die from lack of nutrition, but because it was sick and was not handled properly by medical personnel so that his condition grew worse.

To reduce and to anticipate malnutrition, according to nutrition experts, the method could no longer just the extension, but also assistance from the pregnancy, early initiation of breastfeeding (IMD), 0-6 months of exclusive breastfeeding, and the provision of complementary feeding

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