Suggest Treatment For Low Weight In A Child

Posted on Mon, 27 Mar 2017

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Question : My baby is 1 year 7 months and is not putting on weight. She has Nan 4 and cerelac for 18 months plus. In addition she has homemade khicdi once a day. Please advise

Answered by Dr. Diptanshu Das (46 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
The diet might not be proper

Detailed Answer:
Thanks for asking on HealthcareMagic.

I have gone through your query and understand your concern. Let me mention that the birth weight of a baby is supposed to triple by 1 year of age. If that has already occurred, rest assured that things are fine. However, it is possible that the diet is not proper.

I would insist you to go through the following chart about what foods to give at what age:
http://www.superbabyonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Baby-Food-Chart-4-to-12-months-baby-SuperBaby.jpg

A detailed diet chart can be found at:
http://indianhealthyrecipes.com/indian-baby-food-chart/

Noting down so much information would have made the answer unnecessarily long. Pardon me for avoiding that.

Hopefully that clears your queries.

Regards

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar