What are the results of malnutrition etiology analysis?

Malnutrition is a health symptom of most children today, which is caused by insufficient nutrient intake or poor absorption, but also by overeating and overnutrition. Some parents will ask, why is it that eating too little is not good, and eating too much is not good either? Let's take a look at the results of the malnutrition cause analysis.

The main causes are as follows:

1. Improper feeding

Long-term insufficient food intake, such as insufficient breast milk and failure to add complementary foods early. Artificial feeding, the quality and quantity of food do not meet the needs, such as excessive dilution of milk, or feeding with starchy foods alone. Sudden weaning, the baby cannot adapt to new foods, etc.

2. Bad eating habits

Irregular eating habits, picky eating, rumination habits or nervous vomiting, etc.

3. Disease factors

Diseases affect appetite, hinder food digestion, absorption and utilization, and increase the body's consumption. Common diseases that can easily cause malnutrition include persistent infantile diarrhea, chronic enteritis or dysentery, malabsorption syndrome caused by various enzyme deficiencies, intestinal parasitic diseases, tuberculosis, measles, recurrent respiratory tract infections, chronic urinary tract infections, etc. Certain congenital malformations of the digestive tract (such as cleft lip, cleft palate, congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis or cardia relaxation, etc.) and severe congenital heart disease can cause feeding difficulties. Certain inherited metabolic disorders and immunodeficiency diseases can also affect food digestion, absorption and utilization.

Premature birth and twins are prone to malnutrition, intrauterine infection, maternal illness or malnutrition, and abnormalities in the structure and function of the placenta and umbilical cord can lead to fetal malnutrition and intrauterine growth retardation, which are prerequisites for infant malnutrition.

Severe malnutrition is mostly caused by a variety of factors. Breastfeeding is encouraged. For those with insufficient or no breast milk, they should be supplemented with milk substitutes containing high-quality protein (cow's or goat's milk, soy milk, fish, etc.), and avoid feeding with starchy foods, condensed milk or malted milk alone. Older children should pay attention to the correct combination of food ingredients, appropriately supply meat, eggs, soy products, and supplement with enough vegetables.