ESTADO NUTRICIONAL RELACIONADO A LOS HÁBITOS DIETÉTICOS EN LOS NIÑOS MENORES DE 5 AÑOS QUE ACUDEN AL CENTRO DE SALUD JIPIJAPA DEL MSP, DICIEMBRE 2012-MAYO 2013

Abstract

The investigation had as objective, to correlate the nutritional state related to the dietary habits in the children smaller than 5 years that they go to the center of health of MSP of Jipijapa and it was of type diagnostic proposition, prospective and with this one could meet the area where it will take the study and for it you proceeded to carry out interviews and surveys, to diagnose and to evaluate the outlined problem, from the month of December of the 2012 to May of the one 2013. Where the results of the investigation showed that the children ingest the three main foods in the day (breakfast, lunch and snack) and they also make it 5 times a day (Breakfast, Lunch, Has dinner and 2 refreshments). Followed to this for the ingest of some refreshment type or collation. On the other hand the children that go to this Subcentro consume meats, fishes and chicken between two to four times a week, of equal it forms it they make in the ingest of milk, yogurt or cheese, continued by fruits and vegetables. As long as the cereals, flours and dry grains make it a single time a week, to weigh that most of the parents have never participated in chats on feeding. In the children smaller than five years that Jipijapa of MSP goes to the Center of Health, most has less than a year of age and in smaller scale it arrives to the five years and they compose it in its majority girls in relation to the children, where the best sizes were given in children of less than 1 year of age. It was observed that the children (ace) smaller than five, have in their majority a weight emaciate to severe emaciate, being evidenced in their thinness (- 2DE at -3DE) and severe (< -3DE) thinness, results of a nutritional low level.