The main factors of poverty to become the trigger of malnutrition experienced and five children. In addition to the lack of attention from parents into the causes of the second.It is said Soehartomo H, the head of District Health Office Dompu yesterday. Generally,''residents who have children with the condition of nutrition at the red line comes from a poor family economically,''said Soehartomo.

This is strengthened by the data obtained by District Health Office Dompu related malnutrition in the district. Posyandu reporting from there, in Dompu there are 34 five in the category of less nutrition. 'To the incoming malnutrition, we Just do not exist. The emphasis figures malnutrition is due for free health effect that the government, "he explained.
Five of the 34, the cause of the occurrence of malnutrition is dominated by economic factors because the family barely. Namely, 19 five malnutrition is the result of poverty experienced by the family. Meanwhile, the difficult factors experienced by 6 malnourished children under five, and the rest because of decreased appetite, which is experienced 4 toddler.

'For a toddler eating difficult or decreased appetite this can be caused by a lack of attention from parents, Some of the five experienced this, he said, seemed capable of families that are economically. Usually, the mother mernjadi TKW outside the country and nurture their children be submitted to other people. Because it is still less nutrition category, the handling of the five additional form of food (CFF) and five toddler. As, of formula milk, biscuits and porridge rich nutrition. Jenis makanan tambahan ini disesuaikan dengan usianya. This additional type of food is adjusted with age.

After experiencing the nutrition intervention, he said, five of the 34 nutrition is less, 23 of them have experienced improvement. This was done after 3 months of nutrition interventions conducted by the Health Office. Evaluation,''we do up to 3 months. If at that time and there is additional weight means there is significant growth of the nutritional intervention,''he said.

However, he continued, if not closed the possibility of some five days later that it also experienced malnutrition outside lists, which are not in DinKes. Because the data was obtained from records posyandu cadres in each village. Data from this''posyandu. Therefore, we hope that the citizens have a toddler, for the diligent, industrious posyandu to come, so that the flower growing children are detected,''imbu H Soehartomo. (Public relations).

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