Tips if infant is failing to gain weight even with regular feeding - Dr. Sanjay Panicker

Hello , I'm Dr Sanjay Pannier .

I started Amrita Homeopathy .

In 1997 .

We integrate homeopathy , nutrition , yoga and aesthetics .

We are placed at two locations in Bangalore at Kanga and Mali .

Many Children don't put on weight even though they may be fed every two hours .

Parents often become very anxious .

We may 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 ok , this much height , the child is there , so this much weight the child should have .

So let us say the child's height and the 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 that to be as an underweight and it is only then we need to deal with this particular situation .

If the child's weight should be 20 kg , 20% reduction in the weight , then the actual weight that the child should have is only considered as a lower weight for that particular child .

And hence otherwise the patient's parents did not get upset about it and we did 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 assimilation .

So very often it happens in premature Children that you feed them so well .

Yet they don't put on weight because they are premature babies and their body has not grown in proportion to what the other actually they should have grown .

So their requirement is higher .

So there you must feed more frequently and yet , if it is not putting on weight , it could be a problem with the assimilation , absorption and assimilation .

So their homeopathic medicines play a role .

Medicines like sanicula , abrotanum , iodum , namu tuberculinum are excellent remedies in this kind of a condition where they don't put on weight despite eating well .