Child Weight Up Down

Child Weight Up Down - Doc, my children aged 2 years and 3 months. Since the age of 1.5 years of a child I often cough and cold and cough and cold month for almost 2 months. Although eating and drinking as normal weight fluctuates between 12.5 to 15 kg. Is this normal or are there other indications?

Because of all this when I was sick child to stay active and not be silent. For additional information, my son had this since 1.5 years. And since the age of the child as well I always go where I go because I do not have servants. Previously rarely sick because it is rarely out of the house because it was raised by a baby sitter at home. Are allergic factors, tired, or there are other indications ya doc? Because the frequency of my child cough and cold, so subsequent immunization stopped. Please and thank you before his enlightenment.

Answer :

I was quite surprised if your son has a lot of activity, as always participating mothers go anywhere? The problem that the mother is to say there are 2 weight (12.5 to 15 kg fixed) and chronic cough (2 months).

We first discuss a weight problem. A child must be well nourished, that is sufficient intake of food, enough rest and also for its growth (including weight and height). Weight loss should not fall to rise, because the child's growth, which is always growing and getting bigger growing body function. When your weight fluctuates from 12.5 to 15 kg range is certainly no problem.

Since the age of 1.5 years until the age of 2 years and 3 months (range 8 months) between 12.5 to 15 kg body weight is a strange event. At the age of 1 year 5 months 12.5 kg body weight is pretty good, but when 8 months later the same weight would need to trace the cause, even odder weight up and down. So the weight of the questions from this is: What is the food as usual? Have 3 meals a day, an amount sufficient, or only 3 bribe or a dish to eat?

Because the provision of a given number of calories per meal affects growth. Is given milk? Keep in mind food intake in children aged 2 years at least 1200 calories a day. What a good mother berkosultasi with a dietitian to food intake is not wrong.

Between 12.5 to 15 kg body weight up and down for 8 months of the possibility of weighing. Different scales used to weigh the wrong or how to create the impression of rapid weight change. Diverse types of scales. When measurements with different scales will certainly lead to different assessments. There can also be chronic diseases associated with severe and persistent chronic cough.

The second problem is the old cough (2 months). Unfortunately the mother did not explain how the cough for 2 months if not ever recover? Is it more often at night or during the day, or accompanied by fever or not. Is the cough worse when drinking the ice cream, chocolate, after playing in place velvet, or no contact with TB patients? These questions need to be clarified, to answer the cause of cough.

Causes of coughing that much, but there are two kinds to keep in mind and is often the case, namely cough cough due to allergy or tuberculosis. For further handlers should be the child's mother examined the child medicine to assess the type of cough and assess food intake during this time, and determine the cause of cough.

Dr Aditya Suryansyah SpA