Fatores que dificultam a alimentação complementar infantil
Considered that starting from the sixth month of life, just the maternal milk is not enough for the child's appropriate nutrition, which if it turns necessary to the introduction of other foods in a complemental way, to potentiate his/her healthy development, as well as to supply their energy needs, in what it is defined as complemental feeding. However that conduct not always it is proceeded. This study is motivated by the need of the factors that hinder the appropriate complemental feeding in children in the first childhood appearing. It is a study traverse, epidemic, exploratory, involving 100 mothers and their respective children with age between a and twelve months. It was verified that 47% of the children presented practice of inadequate complemental feeding. To explain this situation, the mothers referred as main reasons: the child's refusal (58,3%); the lack of time to prepare the food (25%); the pratical of the made of the porridge in relation to the salty feeding (16,7%). he/she Gets the attention that 80% of the mothers affirmed to receive previous orientations on that theme in the service of health. In the studied casuistry the medical professional and he with other professional of health were the main professionals of health involved directly in this orientation. It is stood out that just in 5,0% of the children, the nutrition professional's participation was referred.
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