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Opinion Article - (2016) Volume 2, Issue 2
Severe most and one of the main global threat is Nutritional disorders to backward countries, with respect to this issue WHO involved and trying to overcome this issue with the Co-ordination of INF and BNF. International Nutrition Foundation and British Nutrition Foundation, development in weight gain through proper nutrition and proper immune mechanism in the kids is their main role to eradicate and overcome nutritional problems in world.
<Keywords: INF; BNF; Malnutrition; Merasmus; Rickets; Weight loss; Paediatric health issue
In the mankind a respective one health and weight gain is fully based on perfect nutritional intake which he is having daily, poor diet will show the improper impact and injury to the some of the systems in the body, total health also in some times. Blindness, Scurvy, Rickets will be caused by nutritional deficiency disorders only, mainly in kids. Kwashiorkar and Merasmus are the filthy low nutritional diseases, who are completely intolerant by kids. Malnutrition will ruin the health of kids completely in their early stage of life itself.
Vitamin D – Rickets
Vitamin C – Scurvey
Iron Deficiency – Blood loss
Iron over load – Hemochromatosis
Vitamin A - Xerapthalmia
Thiamine – Beri beri
Iodine – Goitre (Figures 1-6)
Respective disease having respective deficiency dis order but in the case of nutritional diseases. Proper nutrition is the only thing to cure nutritional disorders. Providing sufficient diet like fish, meat, egg, milk to malnourished kids and consuming beef, fish liver oil, sheep meat, boiled eggs from the age of 3 itself (Tables 1 and 2).
Figure 5:Paediatric nutrition chart.
Figure 6:Essential nutrition chart.
Vitamins | Diseases | Symptoms |
---|---|---|
Vitamin A | Night Blindness | Poor and Loss of Night Vision |
Vitamin B | BeriBeri | Nervousness, Paralysis |
Vitamin C | Scurvy | Bleeding of Gums, |
Vitamin D | Rickets | Weak Bones, Decaying Teeth |
Vitamin K | Haemorrhage | Clotting of Blood Affected |
Table 1: Table of deficiency due to vitamin.
Disease | Vitamin Deficiency | Scientific Name | Natural Foods |
---|---|---|---|
Scurvy | C | Ascorbic Acid | Oranges, Straw Berry |
Rickets | D | Calciferol | Egg Yolk, Live Oil |
Pellagra | B3 | Niacin and Tryptophan | Peanuts, Chicken |
BeriBeri | B1 | Thiamine | Peas, Fish, Rice |
Night Blindness | A | Retinol | Carrot, Sweet Potatoes |
Table 2: Natural foods to avoid vitamin deficiency.