DESTETE PRECOZ Y SU RELACIÓN CON EL ESTADO NUTRICIONAL EN LOS MENORES DE DOS AÑOS EN EL CENTRO DE SALUD JIPIJAPA DICIEMBRE - MAYO 2013

Abstract

In the present investigative work, the nutritional evaluation has been realized to children from 0 to 2 years of age, which they attend at the Jipijapa Center of Health of canton Jipijapa of the Province of Manabí, through the anthropometric measures, to determine the nutritional condition in which they are. For the sample realized for 5 months, it has determined that 100 mothers who attend at the mentioned Center of Health to medical routine evaluations, which ages understand the already established ones, to realize a survey that consists of eleven questions, which has as principal aim to determine the relation between the precocious weaning and the nutritional condition, in turn if the mothers provide the mother lactation, the type of food that serve more to their children, with what frequency they are elaborated, if so much they as their children suffer some disease that prevents their mother lactation during the first 6 months of age and the beginning of the complementary supply up to 24 months of age since when both are not suitable it affects the nutritional condition of children. There has been realized the elaboration of a nutritional guide where it can emphasize different types of menus, taking in it counts the requirements of children according to ages and physical activity with a supply nourishing and balanced with the presence of all the groups that conform the Food Pyramid and in this way the knowledge of the mothers is able to strengthen at the moment of feeding his children and that they could satisfy all their vital needs every day.