MADRID, 23 ( EUROPA PRESS)
Almost 5 per cent of Spanish children is in a State of malnutrition, as stated on the basis of the data of the study ' malnutrition Spanish paediatric hospital ' (DHOSPE) during the 7th training of Resident of Pediatrics Conference organized by the Institute of nutrition children’s Hero Baby.
Research work, which was made last year but which has been revealed now, also sheds the fact that the risk of malnutrition “rises to nearly 30 per cent” in the case of children who enter the Spanish hospitals, explained the responsible for it. With regard to minors treated in primary care Pediatrics consultations, the percentage reaches “between 10 and 30 per cent”, confirm.
For experts, the current situation is caused “by the increase in poverty and unemployment in our country bags” and the lack of nutritional knowledge of the general population. For this reason, point out that the initiative of the Institute of nutrition children’s Hero Baby, in collaboration with the Spanish Association of Pediatrics developed in Murcia “is very important for the dissemination of these figures”.
Study DOSPHE, who has been in more than 60 Spanish hospitals with a sample of more than 1,200 children up to 18 years, has served to highlight the relevance of this situation. To present at the Conference specialist, a child can be considered malnourished “when their normal development slows”.
To illustrate it, warning that “we can say that a child is at risk when they pass 4 weeks without weight gain”. In addition, derived to the ' index Waterlow ' to know if a child is in a State of good nutrition or not.
These and other recommendations have been offered to pediatric residents, who have received further training and information on advances in “prenatal diagnosis, diseases of the respiratory tract and the so-called precocious puberty”, concluded specialists.
