2023-12-29 13:11:00

Fatima Yasser wrote Friday, December 29, 2023 03:11 PM

a lot of Mothers She is worried regarding her child not gaining weight despite eating good amounts of food. She describes her child as having a pale skin color even though his weight is normal, and he suffers from weak immunity and a lack of concentration. After conducting tests in the first year of his life, it was proven that he suffers from anemia. Many things are going on. In the minds of mothers because of their fear and anxiety for their child, because the aforementioned symptoms mean that he is suffering from malnutrition, explains Dr. Hatem Hilal, Pediatric Nutrition and Medicine Consultant at Al-Azhar Faculty of Medicine.

In a special statement to Al-Youm Al-Sabea, a pediatric nutrition and medicine consultant confirmed that we hear all of the above-mentioned complaints in the clinic often, and the mother is surprised by the fact that their child is eating appropriate amounts of food, but he suffers from signs of malnutrition, including general weakness, pale color, lack of concentration, and weakness. Immunity.

He pointed out that a term has appeared in child nutrition science and the World Health Organization has taken an interest in it, which is “hidden hunger,” which means that a child eats good amounts of food but suffers from weakness and malnutrition, and the reason for this is due to the lack of nutrients that his body needs at this age. which he passes through.

He continued his speech by explaining that this means that the quantity of a child’s nutrition is not a good thing, but the quality, that is, the quality of the food consumed and the important nutritional elements it contains for the body.

The pediatric nutrition and medicine consultant urged that a mother who seeks to provide a meal that contains all the important nutritional elements for the child is much better than offering him food that lacks nutrients, especially during the construction phase, because this exposes him to many health complications, most notably anemia and malnutrition.

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