Author(s): Atul Kumar Singh¹, Dr. Umesh Kumar2



Abstract: Good nutrition is the cornerstone for survival, health and development for current and successive generations. Well-nourished children perform better in school, grow into healthy adults and also give their children a better start in life. Well-nourished women face fewer risks during pregnancy and childbirth, and their children set off on firmer developmental paths, both physically and mentally. In the first 36 months of life, children develop 40 percent of their ability to think, speak, reason and lay the foundation for their social behaviour as adults.

Under nutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide. Every minute of every day, somewhere in the world, 21 children die of malnutrition and preventable diseases. Even when it doesn’t kill, chronic malnutrition can cause blindness, deformities and brain damage. The number of malnourished children under the age of 5 in the developing world is projected to decline by only 21 % from 166.3 million in 1997 to 131 million in 2020. This means that by 2020, nearly one-fourth of all children younger than 5 years will still have malnutrition

DOI:10.61165/sk.publisher.v11i2.1

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To Study the Clinical Signs of Malnutrition in Children Upto Two Years of Age with History of Diarrhoea

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