Nutritional anemia or iron in the blood is less known is one of the main nutritional problems in third countries, which may be suffered by all the age groups from infants, toddlers, school aged children, adolescents, adults, and elderly. Various scientific studies show that patients also suffer from malnutrition iron deficiency is a negative impact on child growth and development. Anemia due to lack of nutrition and vitamins and other minerals still need attention. In fact, almost all age groups still suffer from anemia.
Based on Household Health Survey, the prevalence of anemia in infants around 0-5 years 47%, school aged children and adolescents about 26.5%, and women of childbearing age ranges from 40%.
Seeing some of the results of this survey, anemia, malnutrition remains a major nutritional problems in children, pregnant women, and women in general.
But the concern anemia is anemia that occurs in pregnant women and infants. Why? Because the group of pregnant women and infants is a group that has a golden period and the critical period. That is, mothers who are in need of containing minerals, protein, and folic acid. Toddlers also have a large period of growth, including brain growth is also desperately needed the intake.
If during pregnancy a mother and toddler mineral deficiencies, protein, and folic acid, a child will have a risk of permanent brain damage. If there is permanent brain damage, would be bad in the process of brain development.
Loss generation
When entering school, children have less intelligence.
Anemia can cause damage to brain cells is more dangerous permanently damage skin cells. Once brain cells are damaged can not be restored. Therefore, in the gold and the critical need of attention.
Unlike the case of famine. Although skin wrinkles and belly, can be solved as before. While toddlers who have suffered permanent brain damage difficult to overcome. This is a concern, the generation loss due to brain damage. Brain damage is difficult to be restored.
Rapid brain growth is starting a fetus in the womb until the age of 2 years. At that time the so called golden age with a growing brain cells reached 80%. The remaining 20% only after 2 years of age. Therefore, mothers who gave birth to her child breastfeeding is highly recommended.
Anemia caused by iron nutrition reciprocal relationship between the adequate intake of nutrients, especially iron and protein, with worms infection. Therefore, the response to iron nutritional anemia directed the short term by providing iron supplementation tablets plus handling blood and worms.
Children are not given enough nutritious food. If the bleeding is caused by worms and causes blood shortage is not resolved, it's useless. For example, there are children who eat well off, but the weight less. To overcome this need to program providers as well as eradication of nutritious foods worms.
For the long-term nutritional anemia prevention efforts directed by improving healthy lifestyle and clean through the family norms and patterns of nutrition conscious clean and healthy lifeIn addition, in response to iron nutritional anemia.
