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FEEDING AND WEANING: A COMPARISON BETWEEN WELL NOURISHED AND SEVERELY MALNOURISHED INFANTS UPTO AGE OF1 YEAR.

Naheed Haroon Kazi, Imran Ahmed, Roomana Qureshi, Ashique Ali Arain, Mansoor Ali Khokhar, Irum Jamil

Feeding and weaning has great role in the development of infants but as a common observation most of the mothers lake the knowledge of the proper time to feed and the weaning along with what to feed. The impact of which could easily be seen in pediatric outpatient departments of public and private sectors hospitals. We designed this work to estimate and compare the level and nature of feeding and weaning among the well-nourished and mall nourished infants less than 1 year age at pediatric unit of LUMHS hospital. So we selected 50 well-nourished and 50 mall-nourished infants and information about the feeding and weaning natures was gathered from mothers in the form of a questionnaire from willing to participate subjects. We found 49% males 30%out of which were well-nourished and 19% were severely malnourished while 51% were female infants out of them 20% were well-nourished and 31% were severely mall-nourished p-value was found significant (0.045) on chi-square when data was analyzed on SPSS 22nd version. Exclusive breast feeding was seen in 85% infants while 8% infants were fed on fresh milk of Buffalow and 7% of infants were given powder milk as their feed. Conclusion: There are improper weaning habits specially the timing and nature of food to be used for this purpose is responsible for malnutrition. Key Words: Weaning, Infants, Nutrition, Mal-nourishment, Breast feeding, Fresh Buffalow Milk

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