Your child's nutritional status
for growth and development, immunity and intellectual development
It has an impact that cannot be ignored.
In order to make children grow up healthily,
We need to evaluate the nutritional status of children
Safeguard your child's health.
Popular science on maternal and child health
1. What is Child Nutrition Evaluation?
Children's nutritional evaluation is an important indicator to evaluate whether children have received adequate nutrition and healthy physical development, an important evaluation index to ensure the healthy growth of children, and also a key work content of children's health care. Children's nutritional evaluation mainly includes physical development evaluation, dietary evaluation, body composition analysis and nutrient determination.
2. Evaluation of physical development status
Height and weight are a direct indicator of a child's adequate nutrition. A child's height and weight can be measured and compared with control data from children of the same age to determine whether their growth and development are normal. Accurate physical growth monitoring and analysis is the primary guarantee for child health care.
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Maternal and Child Health Hospital Children's Health Care Department and Developmental Behavior Pediatrics Department of use advanced physical measurement tools, measurement data directly into the children's health management system, automatic generation of physical growth curves, measurement personnel have good comfort nervous and uncooperative children's skills, do physical index evaluation and analysis of doctors familiar with children's physical growth and development laws and proficient in the analysis of various growth curves, children's physical measurement room receives more than 100,000 children's physical measurements every year.
3. Reasonable diet evaluation
Observing the type and amount of food intake of children is one of the important indicators to evaluate children's nutritional status. Children's daily intake of a variety of foods such as vegetables, fruits, cereals, eggs, dairy products, meat and legumes should ensure that children receive balanced nutrition to meet their growth and development needs. Usually the weighing method, accounting method, accounting + weighing method, inquiry method, etc., can be used to understand whether children are consuming enough calories and nutrients.
The Department of Child Health Care and the Department of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics of our hospital can do scientific evaluation of children's diet, analyze children's dietary records through nutritional diet software, calculate children's reasonable energy and various nutrient intake, formulate personalized dietary guidance prescriptions for children, and establish children's nutrition project management to guide parents to carry out scientific feeding.
Fourth, the analysis and evaluation of body composition
To determine the absorption and transformation of nutrients ingested by children in the body, they can be determined by a body composition analyzer. Body composition detection collects human body data through 3D photon scanning technology, conducts 3D modeling, obtains human body volume, posture and body shape data, combines weight data for multi-dimensional data analysis and intelligent analysis, calculates body density, and then analyzes body composition data such as body fat percentage and muscle rate, assists in clinical realization of children's physical development assessment management, feeding behavior management, dietary intake assessment and management, and helps children establish a more balanced and reasonable nutrition pattern.
At present, the analysis of the body composition of children aged 0-3 years carried out by the Department of Child Health Care and the Department of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics is scientifically applicable and provides a good guide for the scientific feeding of children.
5. Laboratory examination of nutrients
Laboratory tests can help to understand the child's utilization of micronutrients such as minerals and various vitamins in his or her diet, such as the amount of total protein and prealbumin in the serum, which is lower than normal and indicates insufficient or significant loss of protein in the long term.
Our laboratory can use the gold standard method to measure commonly used nutrient indexes such as hemoglobin, serum iron, total protein, serum ferritin, etc., and can also accurately determine the content of fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E and micronutrients such as iron, zinc and calcium in the serum, which is helpful to comprehensively understand whether the levels of various micronutrients in the body are within the normal range, make more accurate evaluation of children's nutrition and carry out accurate diagnosis and treatment of children's nutrition problems.
In summary, the nutritional evaluation of children is an important indicator to assess whether children are getting adequate nutrition. Through the evaluation of the above aspects, the nutritional status of children can be comprehensively assessed. For children with nutritional deviations, timely interventions should be implemented to ensure that they have access to adequate nutrition for their healthy development.
Consultation guidance
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Maternal and Child Health Hospital Child Health Department of Child Health Care Department and Developmental Behavior Pediatrics - Child Nutrition Clinic can provide children with scientific and comprehensive nutritional evaluation, and according to the different development of children to provide personalized nutritional support guidance, including: growth retardation, obesity, emaciation, malnutrition, poor dietary behavior and food allergy diagnosis and treatment, but also can guide the dietary and nutritional treatment of children's diabetes, childhood nephrotic syndrome and other diseases, promote the recovery of children's clinical diseases and ensure the healthy growth of children!
Welcome to the Child Nutrition Clinic of the Department of Child Health and Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics of our hospital for consultation, health care, and treatment.
Department of Child Health and Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Discipline Leader
Jiang Xiao-hsien
Director, Department of Child Health and Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics/
Master of Clinical Medicine/Master Supervisor/
Chief Physician/Registered Dietitian
Social and academic organizations (current position): Leader of the Child Health Care Discipline of Guangxi Maternal and Child Health Service, member of the Child Health Care Branch of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, member of the National Expert Group of the China Women's Development Foundation's "National Family Care Action for Autistic Children", and Chairman of the Child Health Care Branch of the Guangxi Maternal and Child Health Association.
Technical expertise: good at children's health examination, children's physical growth and neurodevelopment monitoring and guidance, premature infants high-risk infant evaluation and monitoring, children's height management, children's nutritional diseases and allergic diseases diagnosis and treatment, children's autism, ADHD, tics, enuresis and language retardation and other developmental and behavioral pediatric diseases, etc.
Text丨Jiang Huiyun Wu Weilan
Picture丨Wu Weilan