Surakarta, PT Solo Abadi Indonesia — Wednesday (18/05/2022) PT Solo Abadi Indonesia collaborated with Dr. Ria Yoanita, Sp.A to discuss stunting. With the theme “Moms, Short Children Don’t Immediately Be Labeled Stunting!”. This collaboration took place on instagram live stunting kit and village against stunting at 18.30-19.30 WIB hosted by C. Lintang Larasati and Indah Arum Sari.
This event is open to the public, especially housewives, PKK cadres, and health workers. Departing the problem of stunting in Indonesia is getting higher and also many mothers at home ask the Solo Abadi team about short children stunting. For this reason, this collaboration aims to educate about stunting problems from causes to prevention by presenting health experts. Dr. Ria Yaoanita, Sp. A is a pediatrician and influencer in health sciences.
Dr. Ria Yoanita, Sp. A explained in a squeaky and clear that short children are not necessarily stunting, but stunting children are short. This refers to the WHO curve as an indicator in monitoring a child’s growth that stunting is below minus 2 elementary school. He also explained that the cause of stunting occurs to many factors. One of them is the lack of nutrients in the first 1000 days of life and failure to grow (waltering growth) which always experiences a decline.
“The cause of this stunting is actually like a vicious circle. Because it can start with the young women, brides-to-be, and pregnant women until the child is born at the age of 2 years. Failure to grow and nutritional deficiencies are the cause of stunting because from the womb until the age of 2 years the volume of the brain develops rapidly by 80%, then it will increase until the age of 5 years by 20%.” Ungkap Dr. Ria Yoanita, Sp.A.
Dr. Ria also said that the impact of stunting is very bad in the short to long term. Then it is mandatory to prevent stunting as early as possible. Starting with monitoring young women, brides-to-be, pregnant women, and children aged 2 years to the age of 5 years.
In measurements must also be considered the measuring instrument used. Indicators of this measuring instrument such as passing calibration tests, TKDN certification, and having a distribution permit. Also make sure at the time of measurement the base used must be flat to get valid results. This will certainly affect stunting monitoring.
“This stunting child can be detected by routinely taking measurements every month in posyandu. Includes height, weight, and head circumference. After measuring the data is entered into the WHO curve book which is pink. We monitor whether every month this line rises, falls, or hits. If it is below the number and there are indicators of stunting, parents should evaluate the child’s nutrition or also come to the health worker for consultation on child growth.” Clear Dr. Ria Yoanita.
At the end of the event, Dr. Ria Yoanita conveyed to the live participants that be careful in branding the short child stunting. He also invited for education and prevention of stunting must be done as early as possible.
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PT Solo Abadi Indonesia is a company located in Surakarta, Central Java. Engaged in manufacturing and is the largest producer of portable stadiometer, infantometer board, anthropometric chair and stunting kit in Indonesia, which was established in 2005. Solo Abadi products can be applied in various fields of science such as health, anthropology, forensics, industrial engineering, product design, academia, to the military. We hope that we can continue to contribute to advancing the domestic industry by offering certified and licensed products for distribution.
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