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Calorie Requirements: Birth -6 months -
✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-120kcal/kg/day
Calorie Requirements: 7mo - 1 year - ✔✔ANSWER
✔✔-100kcal/kg/day
Calorie Requirements: 2 - 10 years - ✔✔ANSWER
✔✔-100 to 70 kcal/kg/day
Calorie Requirements: adolescents - ✔✔ANSWER
✔✔-45 kcal/kg/day
Breast feeding benefits - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-· Perfect food;
cannot be duplicated
· Decreases illness in infants
,· Maternal antibodies are transferred to infants
· Decreased GI problems such as GERD
· Decreases allergies as it contains antiinflammatory
agents
· Breastfeeding during painful procedures provides
analgesia
· The longer the mom breastfeeds, the less chance of the
child to be overweight independent of education and
socioeconomic status Recommended time to exclusive
breast feed - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-6 months and feed on
demand
Iron supplementation - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-o For
exclusively breast-fed infants: approximately 1 mg/kg/day
of iron is recommended after 6 months of age
o Bottle feeding should contain iron supplementation
o Ideally iron should come from fortified cereals o
Elemental iron supplements can be given if iron intake
from diet is not adequate
, · Fluoride Supplementation - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-o
Supplements only when local water supply is less
than 0.3 parts per million (ppm) o Supplementation
first 6 months of life
Initial weight loss after birth - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-10%
· Adequate nutrition confirmed by weight gain up to
3 months - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-o 30 g/day (1 oz/day) for
the first 3 months o Gain of 15-20 g/day during
subsequent 3 months
· Vitamin Supplementation - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-o
Vitamin D (400 IU per day at 2 months of age to
adolescence o Vitamin B12 for breastfeeding mothers
who are strict vegetarians
Initial weight loss regained when - ✔✔ANSWER
✔✔-within 7-14 days