childrens heart disease
Proper Nutrition of A Child with Congenital Heart Disease
By Justin
What is Known Already?
Ø 8-10 children/1000 live births are born with congenital heart disease
Ø Most common heart diseases are holes in heart, blue babies, rheumatic fever etc.
Ø Malnutrition(poor weight, growth and development) is very common in them.
Why heart kids have poor nutrition?
Ø Heart disease causes fast metabolism and burns up their calories.
Ø Frequent cough, cold, pneumonia are all catabolic processes which increase the energy demand by body .
Ø During infections, baby is irritable and does not want to take food
Ø Faulty nutrition practices like delayed starting of semisolids, giving liquids and not solids, diluting milk etc
Ø Poor economic status of parents.
What should you do?