Many children don’t put on weight, even though they may be fed every two hours. Parents often become very anxious. We need not consider the child to be underweight unless their weight is grossly below normal according to their height. Generally there is a scale which says that this much height the child is there, so this much weight the child should have. So let us say the child’s height and weight proportion. If the weight of the child is 20% less than what it should actually be at that particular height, then only we can consider it to be underweight, then only we need to deal with this particular situation. If the child’s weight should be 20kg, 20% reduction in the weight than the actual weight that the child should have is only considered as lower weight for that particular child and hence otherwise the patients parents did not get upset about it and we may not do too much about it. But let us say the weight is less than 20% of what it should actually be. Then you need some kind of treatment to improve the absorption and the assimilation. So very often it happens in premature children that you feed them so well, yet they do not put on weight because they are premature babies and their body has not grown in proportion to actually what they want. So their requirement is higher. So there you must feed more frequently and yet if it is not putting on weight then it could be a problem with the assimilation, absorption and assimilation. So there homeopathic medicines play a role, medicines like saniquila, abrotanum, iodium, natrum mur, tuberculinum are excellent remedies in this kind of a condition where they don’t put on weight despite eating well.

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