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SDA-RF-CH-1A.9
Is Your Child Malnourished?
What you can do about it?
This child is malnourished
This child looks
Healthy but she is also
malnourished
A Healthy child looks
like this.
Like this, lots of kids in our village - 5 out of
every 10 - are malnourished.
It is very easy to transform a malnourished child,
into a well-nourished child/
Just follow these 7 pieces of advice - that’s enough!
One
Keep giving breast milk and ONLY breast milk
Don't even give WATER
Breast milk has all the required nutrition for the child.
TWO
A Six-month baby needs more than just Mother’s milk. Give Mother’s milk,
but also start supplementary weaning food.
2
Give all these to your child.
Do you know?
Kids who are 2 years old need feeding 6 times a day.
6 times ? Do kids need to eat so much ?
Small children grow fast. At this stage they need a
lot of food for growth. Three times is not enough,
they need to be fed six times a day.
3
Amma! I am less than quarter of
your weight. But I need to eat half
has much as you do.
That s right, a child has a small stomach, but her need is a lot. Each meal
she can only eat very little. That’s why she needs to be fed 6 times a day.
Four
6 times ! My God! What can we feed 6 times?
Morning
10 Am
1 Banana
12 Noon
!/2 Cup Dhal
4
Green vegetables
Five
Definitely give your child oil mixed with food. If ghee or coconut oil or
gingiley oil is there, this can be given. If not, cooking oil will also do.
Give your child green and yellow fruits and vegetables and spinach. These
have lots of vitamins, minerals and particularly iron - Very good for your child.
5
Seven
I am ill. My eating ability has corne 1
down. But my food need has gone up!
Don't reduce my food. .'
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After the child becomes well, feed the child
extra to make up for the lost weight.
PREPARED FOR
Arogya lyakkam and People Health Movement
BY
Tamilnadu Science Forum and AID-India
132, Awai Shanmugam Road, Gopalapuram, Chennai - 600 086
Phone: (044) 28115058, 28113630, Email: aidindia@vsnl.net
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