When is the right time to Prevent Stunting Children?

Lately, you as a parent might often hear about "stunting" in children. Yes, stunting became one of the focus of the Government in improving the quality of human resources in Indonesia. Many studies have proven that children who grow up stunting bring much harm to him. For example, are at risk of experiencing problems of development which can not be changed anymore, so the impact is long on his future. Then, whether stunting can be prevented? When is the best time to prevent stunting children?

What is stunting?

Stunting, or also can be called short is a condition in which the height of the child does not fit with his age. This could indicate that the growth of children stunted.

Stunting can be caused by nutritional deficiencies for a long time, since the child is still in the womb until the child was two years old. This can be caused by a poor feeding practices, lack of nutrients, cukupan and repeated infectious diseases that can prevent the baby gets the nutrients he needs for growth.

What is the result of stunting?

Stunting can be bad in the long or short time. This could be influential in the life of a baby in the future, both in terms of health, education, and economics.

Stunting in children could affect development of the brain. As a result, the performance of children in school could be worse than a child who does stunting. In the days to come, this could be a child's life can affect the economy. Economists even predicted that the stunting can reduce a country's GDP amounted to 12%.

In addition, stunting children generally have an immune system that is weaker and also have a greater risk of serious diseases, such as diabetes and cancer. The impact of stunting in fact can also be forwarded to the next generation. Mothers who give birth to babies who are at risk of stunting also stunting in the adequacy of its nutrition value does not note.

Unfortunately, this can not be a stunting conditions improved. There is a possibility it could be repaired, however it is in need of the support of the new environment. To that end, it is important for parents to be able to prevent Your child stunting.

When is the right time to prevent stunting children?

It's hard to improve an already experienced stunting the child if the child is already more than 2 years old. This is because until the age of two years is time critical (critical window) or 1000 times also included the first day of life (PPC), where at this time the child's growth and development to occur very quickly.

The body is a high accumulation. So, if in less than two years of age children are already experiencing a stunting, then it's hard for a child to grow up to emulate the high child who does stunting. The pursuit of failed might not be a thing that is not possible, but it takes more effort that requires a good environment.

To that end, it is important for women to pay attention to the adequacy of its nutrition value ranging from pregnancy (counted since the PPC 1000 pregnant women). This period is the beginning of the growth and development of the child. If since the nutrient content in child nutritional status well, then the child would be a good time to be born, so contributing to the growth and development of the child.

Until the child is two years of age, this is a critical period in a child's growth and development. During this time, the child's growth and development to occur very quickly, faster than other times even puberty.

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