“Growth not monitored” is major cause of growth failure in most Indian children.
“Lack of growth monitoring” caused Growth failure is the rule in India.
Introduction of growth charts and growth monitoring is a minimum cost maximum benefit intervention in improving the health of our children and our people.
Govt. of India has, along with 121 countries signed the “rights of children” document. This document gives every Indian child a right to grow well. This is implemented only by monitoring growth with the help of growth charts.
To ensure universal growth monitoring, i.e., to ensure that every child’s growth is well monitored, we must take following step.
1. Publish a document called IAP Bhuvaneshwar document at the end of this workshop cum conference, that suggests concrete programme for growth monitoring of every Indian child.
Name pediatrician’s file with growth chart as passport to health.
2. Make growth chart as compulsory as ration card, birth certificate election card, 7/12 record of land.
3. Make growth charts filling compulsory part of school health examination, and every pediatrician’s every child examination..
Just as govt. spends to give photo i-card to every adult for election, govt. should spend money and give one growth chart to every child, to keep with him for 18 years.
4. All local self government bodies including every gram panchayat, zilla parishad, nagarparishad, corporation, have mother and child welfare funds. These can be used for growth charts.
5. Make every one aware that children make 49% of population. So half the government’s budget should be for children. Govt. should use this money to give one growth chart to every child per child. IAP growth chapter first and IAP general body later, on recommendation and resolution of growth chapter should pass a resolution. and make necessary recommendation to the government.And makea athes recommendataion knpwn to every Indian with the help of press,tv,radio, so that public opinion builds up and brings about necessary changes.
6.7. Currently ICDS uses growth charts. But these are kept with ICDS worker. And people do not know them. ICDS Anganwadi workers should be taught to teach their importance to parents.
Government should be asked to use latest IAP charts in place of the old charts they use.
Make sure that every one makes following lines by heart.
1.good parenting means good monitoring of height weight for 18 months.
Moniter height weight and then celebrate the growth on every birthday for 18 years.
Also moniter height weight of the child on date of birth every 23 months i.e. every quarterly. child quarterly for 18 years. Moniter height weight , and head circumference every month on date of birth for first three years. Do it at least alternate month or quarterly.
Steps to make every child 6 feet tall...
We all will Reach following facts in 15 Indian languages to 111 crore Indians with the help of paper ,t.v., radio.
1. Every Indian boy and girl has the god given genetic potential to grow 6 feet tall.
2. Following information will help children to grow well.
3. Every well fed healthy Indian child grows all the time daily till 18 years of age...
4. If they do not get enough food, they do not grow.
If they are sick they do not grow.
When they are hungry, they do not grow. Ensure that food and water is on the floor with in their reach round the clock. Even raw rice will do.
National Nutrition Monitoring bureau’s studies show that Indian children’s diet is 90% deficient in fats. [highest deficit. protein, energy deficit in weak children is about.25 %].
To make children 6 feet tall, ask children to eat with a dish or drink like medicine, a spoon or tiny wati of oil 6 times a day. Refined oil is taste less, odourless, just like water. Economical and ideal for drinking. All children a drink it happily. Parents should always taste it and confirm this and then happily five it to children. Oil applied to skin for massage also gets absorbed and helps in growth.
Keep their pockets full of snacks, like roasted grams, groundnuts, rice etc what ever they eat, even raw rice will do. We have digested raw food for millions of years. We have learned to cook food since few thousand years.
Avoid liquid foods which have more water and less food and cause starvation.
For example tea coffee is about.
Milk has 90 % water 100 % water
Fruit juice, watery dal, rasam, saram , buttermilk etc all have 90 % or more of water.
Children have small apetite. Small child’s small stomach gets filled with liquids and small appetites get destroyed with liquid foods which have very little food. For example one ml. of oil gives 13.5 time more calories and energy than milk.
Stop tea, milk coffee.Used the money saved to buy oil, and snacks like roasted ground nuts. Keep them in child’s pocket round the clock.
Add oil to everything the child eats.
Happily watch the child grow .
Avoid illnesses as follows.
1. give all vaccines to all children on war footing.
2. Do not eat food outside the house. Food from out side the house is often handled by people whose sickness reaches you with the food.
3. Keep 2 arms away from people having cough cols fever.The air transfers the illness to you when you go closer, or you get it when you shake hands with them or come in close contact with them
4. Avoid cold drinks an ice creams in parties. A cold throat catches cough cold early and party has few sick people having cough cold.
5.Tell this to our friends, and neighbours. And keep them healthy. Healthy neighbours hood keeps you healthy and sick neighbour hood keeps you sick.
HORMONICA : some useful information about hormones...
1. Growth hormone brings about growth. A good sleep gives good growth hormone and good growth. Encourage children to sleep early.Even a night lamp disturbs sleep. Put it off.
2. IKnsulin is another hormone that promotes growth.It is secreted when we eat food. It is absent when a child is hungry. Keep pockets always full. and ensure growth.
3. Vitamin D
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