Brief Answer: following is diet advise Detailed Answer: Namasthe Welcome to Healthcare-Magic Greetings of the day Dear Ms XXXX Being a Parent myself I understand your concern and apprehension. Let me reassure you there is no cause for concern. How often is the cough and since how long. Is there any wheezing or breathing difficulty? Is there any regurgitation of food followed by coughing Following is the diet advise I would suggest the following diet, which you can change and give it to him suiting his tastes and liking 1. Khicdi and curds: Khicdi with curds and a spoon of desi ghee added: Curds is a natural probiotic and will help restore normal bacteria of colon and prevent further loose motion. Ghee is high calorigenic 2. Wheat Porridge/Dalia/Lapsi 3. Rice water 4. Dhal water 5. Simyl MCT Drops: 10 drops thrie a day. They contain Medium chain triglyceride absorption of whih is not affected even during loose motion and will help build up weight 6. Continue giving Breast feeding, till 18 months of age. I would also share the following recipe which you can try, your kid will love it. 1.Veg soup: Contents: tomato -2, potato-1small, Onion - 1 small, Carrot-1 small. Preperation: Wash all veggies properly peel potato, onion and carrot. Boil tomato in water for 5 to 6 mins sothat u can see the skin of tomato cracks. Now gently remove skin of tomato. Add tomato and the peeled veggies to a cooker with 1/2 a glass of water. Add pinch of salt and whistle the cooker for 2 to 3 times (veggies shud be cooked well). Now bring it to room temp and blend them in a mixer. Strain the contents to remove any lumps and now boil the soup with cinammon sticks (1or 2piece very small one) added to it. Boil it till it reaches the required consistency and then feed LO. Note:You can add any veggie to make this soup including leafy veggies like spinach, amaranthus, cabbage etc. 2.Pumpkin: Take peeled pumpkin. dice the pumpkin and then presure cook it with little salt. mash well with hands and feed it along with rice or as such. 3.Gourds (any ashgourd, rich gourd etc etc): Make it finger size and then pressure cook it or boil in water till it becomes soft. You can either feed as a finger food or you can mash it and feed it along with rice or as such. 4. Boiled potatos and carrots. Pressure cook well and mash it with hands and add pinch of salt and feed baby as such. 5. Caramalised plums: Peel the plum. Put it on hot tawa and get it caramalised on both sides and then feed it mashed. XXXXXXX also u acn do the same way. 6. Poached pear: peel and pit the pear. Take 1/2 glass of water and add cinammon sticks, grated garlic, cloves etc and bring it to boil. Slip the pears into this boiling fluid and cook until its soft and the fluid is just about to disappear. Now remove all the sticks garlic cloves etc from the fluid and mash the pear in the same fluid and can feed the lo. Its really yumm. And for elders you can add sugar and honey while boiling which makes it a decent desert. 7.Avocado XXXXXXX puree. Take avocado and peeled and diced XXXXXXX in equal qty and grind well in blender. Directly feed the baby. 8.Banana: Ripened banana made to thin long slices. Heat tawa add little butter or olive oil and then saute the banana until its soft. mash and feed. If you wish you can add bit of sugar or honey to this 9.Oats and XXXXXXX breakfast: ground oats and diec XXXXXXX Boil apples until its soft and add ground oats cook until oats is done and a yumm breakfast is raedy. 10.Daal : Cook daal in cooker with salt and curry leaves added to it. Mash it add few drops of ghee and u can feed it either with rice or as such. Do get back to me if you need any further assistance, will be glad to assist you. Take Care Best Regards Dr Deepak Kishore K MBBS,MS,MCH Consultant Pediatric Surgeon

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Brief Answer: Start with clear chicken soup Detailed Answer: Namasthe Basically its experimenting with the taste buds of kids. I would suggest you some of the following non veg recipes. 1. You can start with chicken soup with veggies. Boil veggies and some chicken with bones in a cooker. Please pressure cook it till the meat is absulutely soft. You can add garlic pods and black pepper powder to it. Once its cooked blend the mixture and you can then put some butter in a pan add the soup to it and then add few herbs if you wish. 2. Scrambled eggs :Break an egg into a thick-bottomed bowl, add about 120-150 ml of milk, about 2-3 spoonfuls(use lactogen spoons for measurement) of oats(preferably powdered), and some sugar to taste. Mix these well, and then stir it on low heat continuously until the mixture starts thickening. Make sure you stir it continuously, else it starts burning from bottom.once it has nicely thickened, take it off fire , cool and serve 3. Clear Chicken/lamb Liver soup 4. Bheja Fry 5. Lamb pawa soup 6. Boiled eggs: They are very much nutritious. Ty introducing little quantity everytime . Do get back to me if you need any further assistance. Take Care Regards Deepak

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Brief Answer: Present weight depends on birth weight Detailed Answer: Dear Ms XXXXXXX Opinion of present weight depends on birth weight. Weight at 5 months is double the birth weight at 1 year it is 3 times the birth weight at 2 years it is 4 times birth weight. Kindly get back to me with the birth weight. 10 kg looks absolutely fine. Take Care Regards Deepak

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Brief Answer: 10kg at 16 months is fine Detailed Answer: Dear Ms XXXXXXX For purpose of easy calculation, weight at 1 year should be atleast 2.7*3 = 8.1 kg and by 2 years should be minimum of 2.7kg* 4 = 10.8kg. So weight of 10 kg at 16 months is perfectly fine. There is absolutely no need to be worried . Regards Deepak

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