Malnutrition of Nursery schools’ Children of Elite Secondary School of Birendranagar Municipality, Nepal

Abstract

When a baby enters a school, the parents often complain that it isn't getting enough nutrition. Since nursery school is for kids older than 30 months to 59 months, infant boys and girls were measured for height, weight for height/length, and MUAC. Due to absences, only 27 infant boys and girls—out of the 40 students in this age group—were included in the study population. One of the finest options to control malnutrition in children under the age of five should be identified in this school when the children are entered. Schools have human resources (HR) to support parents and even provide healthy food to the children. To identify the right malnutrition, measurements were acquired of the subject's age, height, weight, and MUAC. Excel, SPSS, and WHO Anthro were used to analyze the data. During the age range of 24 to 35, it was discovered that there were actually no wasting children, with a total of more than +1 SD found at 11.1% and +2SD 3.7%, respectively and MUAC was also found in total -2SD 3.7% and in the age group of 24 -35 months, children were with <-2SD in 7.7% . This does not indicate severe acute malnutrition. All schools should have checked the nutritional status of the children during the time of admission from the nursery level, so that children would have been protected from damage to their future lives, in some cases, from death.