Proper Nutrition of A Child with Congenital Heart Disease

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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?

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