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What Causes Absence Of Weight Gain In A Child?

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Posted on Fri, 31 Mar 2017
Question: 15 month baby girl is not gaining weight.
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Answered by Dr. Deepak Patel (2 hours later)
Brief Answer:
Start multivitamin syrup, give food rich in protein and fat

Detailed Answer:
hi, welcome to this forum.
Can understand your concerns.

Weight of child at 15 month of age should be around 10.5 kilogram. So the weight of your child is less for age.

To increase weight of child, the most important thing that we have to keep in mind is there the weight of child depends on how much is the child takes food. Foods should be rich in protein and fat.

You should give food like full cream milk at least 2 times a day amounting to around 400 ml. In fruits you can give banana and apple, these fruits helps in increasing weight of child. You should also give cheese to child. add small amount of ghee or butter in every meal of child. You should also give rice with dal, oats, boiled vegetables. Sweet biscuits and chocolate biscuits also have high Nutrition and should be given. dry fruits in small quantity can also be given.

Most of the time the mother complaints that the child is not eating anything, and has no interest in eating. The fact that we have to understand is that it takes time to develop taste in child. Keep giving 1 type of food for almost 1 week, as the taste develops in child, the child will start eating the food. for example, suppose you visit a different country, the food items are different in that region, it will take time for you to adapt to that food items. but after some time, you will also start eating the food available in that country. Similar is the case in children, you should allow the child to develop taste.

you should also give multivitamin syrup like syrup bevon 5 ml once a day for 2 months. This will also helps in increasing appetite of child.

Open YouTube and search Doctor Deepak Patel, watch video on how to increase weight of child. Subscribe for more health related videos.

I hope this will help you. Wishing your childhood health. take care.

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What Causes Absence Of Weight Gain In A Child?

Brief Answer: Start multivitamin syrup, give food rich in protein and fat Detailed Answer: hi, welcome to this forum. Can understand your concerns. Weight of child at 15 month of age should be around 10.5 kilogram. So the weight of your child is less for age. To increase weight of child, the most important thing that we have to keep in mind is there the weight of child depends on how much is the child takes food. Foods should be rich in protein and fat. You should give food like full cream milk at least 2 times a day amounting to around 400 ml. In fruits you can give banana and apple, these fruits helps in increasing weight of child. You should also give cheese to child. add small amount of ghee or butter in every meal of child. You should also give rice with dal, oats, boiled vegetables. Sweet biscuits and chocolate biscuits also have high Nutrition and should be given. dry fruits in small quantity can also be given. Most of the time the mother complaints that the child is not eating anything, and has no interest in eating. The fact that we have to understand is that it takes time to develop taste in child. Keep giving 1 type of food for almost 1 week, as the taste develops in child, the child will start eating the food. for example, suppose you visit a different country, the food items are different in that region, it will take time for you to adapt to that food items. but after some time, you will also start eating the food available in that country. Similar is the case in children, you should allow the child to develop taste. you should also give multivitamin syrup like syrup bevon 5 ml once a day for 2 months. This will also helps in increasing appetite of child. Open YouTube and search Doctor Deepak Patel, watch video on how to increase weight of child. Subscribe for more health related videos. I hope this will help you. Wishing your childhood health. take care.