The Infantile Malnutrition

INFANTILE

MALNUTRITION

Malnutricion is one of the most controversial problems in the world therefore, a lot of activists are making foundations where people with this illness can recover .

CAUSES

*This big problem is caused by poverty that is one of the most important reasons because people don’t have enough money to get by so they don’t eat the necessary.
*Also it is caused when there isn’t a vitamin in the diet ,also could be because someone isn’t eating well.
*Another important reason is the depression.
*Also it’s easier to have this problem if someone has another illnes.

CONSEQUENCES

The complications that a child suffers when he/she is fed deficiently not only have effect in the stature and the weight. This owes to that an inadequate diet has negative consequences in the levels of vitamins, proteins and minerals, which leads to the malnutrition, suffering of prevalencia discharge in Mexico. In June, 1999 there obtained information on the nutritional condition(state) of million 300 thousand five-year-old minor children, of which 26.9 per cent presented malnutrition, according to the Program of Reform of the Sector Health.

The malnutrition damages principally the small ones that live in the extreme poverty, since they lack economic necessary resources that allow them to take a good nourishing regime.

Between the consequences of the undernourishment they stand out: incapacities of by life, major propensity to suffer diseases during the rest of its life and minor learning capacity. The causes of this serious phenomenon are multiple and of different nature: social, political, economic and cultural. For example, the diseases, the inadequate feeding, the lack of access to an education of quality and a correct information. In the world 24 million children with weight are born annually about inferior to the normal one (less than 2.5 kg), which represents a 17% of the totality of births. The majority of those children is born in the developing countries and the cause of the low weight when being born is deficient the fetal development.

The work, carried out between 221 boys by experts of the Service of Growth and Development of the Garrahan Hospital and the Service of Put Paediatrics of the Hospital, agrees with other investigations on the maturity delay. All emphasizes the negative impact on the linguistic competitions and the abilities for the resolution of problems, but the difficulties in the socialization and the incorporation of habits.