How To Preventing Malnutrition
Malnutrition is a preventable condition that is by providing nutritious foods to baby consisting of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals in the amount of balance, health can be monitored diligently bring health care center to be weighed weight.
Malnutrition prevention efforts can be made
a. Directly
Direct prevention efforts may be improving the nutrition and immunization services, especially for the vulnerable poor nutrition
b. Indirectly.
Indirect handling guarantee food security include the household level, expand employment opportunities. Build and develop small businesses for a small population to increase people’s income.
c. By way of weaning
Weaning is the habit gradually so that the baby can eat adult food. Not a few families who do not understand nutrition baby and not able to prepare food that good nutritional value. The first age of weaning is 4 – 6 months, babies are ready to accept the food is not liquid because the teeth are growing and the stomach can digest starch. We have a baby needs is not enough just through breast milk alone.
d. Handling of cases of malnutrition followed by providing additional nutritious food free of charge to toddler-toddler poor families.