Nutritional care for infants:-

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Regular breastfeeding of the baby makes their immunity stronger. The body of the baby is able to stop the attack of infection as much as possible. During the Covid period, lactating women should breastfeed the babies regularly. In this context, the importance of supplementary diet becomes more important in the Covid period. Children above the age of six months should be given supplementary food. Their food includes porridge, green vegetables, seasonal fruits, egg, meat, roti, rice, khichdi, semolina pudding etc. Also take care of the quality of the diet. Get the children’s weight checked regularly. Weight loss is a major sign of malnutrition, tiredness, lack of interest in eating, weakness and being sick, lack of growth in proportion to age are the symptoms of malnutrition.