Check the height and weight of your crumbs with the standards developed by the World Health Organization, and, if necessary, take action immediately. Sometimes, to save the baby's health, serious steps are necessary!
During the first year of life gain in weight and the growth of the baby is an important indicator of its health. Significant deviation in any direction from the standards recommended by the WHO, is considered to be a dangerous symptom.
The new rules for monitoring healthy child
In 2008, new rules for monitoring the development of a healthy baby were introduced in the order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. The most important criteria for the harmonious development of the baby are considered to be the rate of increase in weight, height and head circumference. Previous rates were clearly too high, as established on the basis of studies conducted mainly in orphanages among babies who were exclusively bottle-fed. These children gained weight more quickly, and therefore, starting from the parameter-bottle-babies, Pediatricians often put the babies who were breastfed, the diagnosis of retardation in weight gain and growth.
New WHO guidelines on which work is now Ukrainian pediatricians, developed as a result of observations of the children from 6 different countries. Moms of these children had no bad habits, feeding their infants and paid much attention to the prevention of infectious diseases. That is, the group of children can in a sense be considered the standard. Check the development of your baby with the new WHO standards. For this is useful to you, our table is useful.
Height and weight of the child according to WHO standards. Useful table / istockphoto.com
Why Weight and growth - this is so important
If the child does have a low height and / or weight for their age, the doctor sees this as a sign that the baby's health is a violation. And encourages parents to pass a complete diagnosis of his health. In practice, this approach helps to identify the disease at an early stage and start treatment. Control of the dynamics of weight gain and growth allows to monitor progress in the treatment of the child.
Height and weight of the child according to WHO standards. Useful table / istockphoto.com
No less important is the substantial excess of the WHO norms. In this case it is often a question of time-delayed problems: children who have a childhood overweight, prone to the emergence of a variety of allergic disease, diabetes (unfortunately, 10-year-old child with a second type of diabetes is not uncommon), coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis. These diseases, until recently, were considered "senile." Alas, the problem of childhood obesity, "rejuvenated" these diseases.
Note genes
In assessing the child's height and weight, the doctor must take into account genetic characteristics of the family: at large parents often are born large children whose development is followed by the upper limit of normal WHO. And that's fine. Conversely, the "small" parents children develop at the lower limits of the WHO recommendations. And that's okay too.
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