Standardised growth charts are a boon to practicing paediatricians , helping them to monitor the nutritional health of the children under their care. Unfortunately, they are not used to the extent they should be. Economic & social development and improved availability of food has skewed India’s nutritional problems from rampant under nutrition to a mix of undernutrition & over nutrition, both of which are eminently preventable if caught early and corrected. Growth charts are immensely helpful in this.
Children who are “Thin” (10 to 30th percentile weight wise), otherwise healthy maintaining percentiles over time, were considered “Normal” requiring no nutritional intervention. New data shows many of them do have covert protein malnutrition and will benefit from high protein (whey) beverage given in addition to routine diet. Abbott nutrition and Docplexus have organized a webinar on 28th…
