For a healthy baby, efforts are needed that follow. Just as adults need vitamins and regular exercise to maintain their bodies, infants and children also need to have their energy needs met. Parents are the parties who have a big responsible for the fulfillment of their child’s nutrition, because they are not yet empowered to fulfill their own nutrition. Tips such as providing exclusive breastfeeding up to the age of 6 months and monitoring the nutritional status of babies can be done to optimize child growth and development and prevent stunting.
Get to know Anthropometry
Anthropometry has the meaning of measuring body dimensions. The term anthropometry comes from the ancient Greek terms anthropos which means human and metron which means measure. The dimensions of the human body in question start from bone, muscle and fat tissue.
Anthropometry itself has a fairly broad application, in the fields of industrial engineering, medicine, interior design, product design, health, biology to nutrition. In nutrition, anthropometric measurements are useful for assessing a person’s nutritional status and knowing the diseases he has suffered in the past. Anthropometry is an important indicator to determine a person’s nutritional status.
The three types of anthropometric measurements are vertical, horizontal and circular measurements. In tooth size, 3 important measures are mesiodisal, buccinual, and crown height. Anthropometry applications cover various fields because it can be used to assess growth status, nutritional status and obesity, individual identification, exercise, and the elderly.
Monitoring of Nutritional Status with Anthropometric Method
Anthropometry or the dimensions of the human body is one of the indicators used to measure a person’s nutritional status. Monitoring of nutritional status is very necessary, especially in 1000 HPK or the first day of a child’s life. That’s when organogenesis and maturation of body structures take place, in order to ensure the growth process runs smoothly, it is important to detect disorders early on and prevent stunting through monitoring nutritional status.
Monitoring nutritional status through anthropometric methods should be carried out routinely. This is because children’s growth is relatively fast and needs to be measured continuously. The following are the indicators needed to monitor the nutritional status of children using the anthropometric method:
- Age
- Height
- Weight
- Head Circumference
- Upper Arm Circumference (LiLA)
- Skin Thickness
- So on
To optimize a child’s growth apart from monitoring nutritional status, exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months is also very necessary.
Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months
You must be familiar with exclusive breastfeeding instructions. But do you know why exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months is very influential on a child’s growth? This is because breast milk has solid and complete nutrition for baby’s growth. Breast milk or breast milk is produced in the corpus alveolus which is the smallest unit that produces milk, then from the alveolus it will be forwarded to the lactiferous ducts. After delivery, milk production is influenced by the baby’s mouth sucking which is able to stimulate prolactin out.
The meaning of exclusive here is breastfeeding without any additional intake of formula milk or solid food. Here are the nutritional content of breast milk:
- Carbohydrate
- Protein
- Fat
- Mineral
- Vitamin
- 88% Water
Let’s make the Exclusive Breastfeeding program a success by constantly monitoring the development of the nutritional status of the baby to avoid stunting.
Monitoring Baby’s Nutritional Status with Anthropometry Kit
PT. SOLO ABADI INDONESIA fully supports government policies to reduce stunting in Indonesia. We provide a variety of baby anthropometry measuring instruments with unquestionable domestic quality. We can also provide Anthropometry Kits according to your needs. For adults, we also provide portable Anthropometry which has been widely used by universities in Indonesia.
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