Abstract:
:Weighing children is one of the simplest, cheapest, and quickest methods of assessing the nutritional status of children. Regular weighing of children and recording the results on growth charts can be used to monitor the growth pattern of individual children and may promote early detection and prevention of growth-faltering due to illness or malnutrition. This paper considers the traditional beliefs against weighing children regularly among some populations in Tamil Nadu, India. The reason why mothers were reluctant to have their children weighed was most commonly the fear that the investigator might cast an evil eye. Every time the evil eye was suspected, a traditional purification ritual had to be followed. Other reasons given were that the child would lose weight and might suffer other illnesses, such as fever or diarrhea. 1 mother felt there was no use in weighin the child. Most mothers gave a combination of reasons. It has been abserved that mothers often allow their children to be weighed in exchange for some benefit each time. Another feeling among mothers is that weighin is related to sale of goods, be it meat or other materials: they do not want to sell their children. Regular weighing is only a diagnostic tool, and for credibility it needs to be seen to be connected with health care and nutrition intervention programs, in the form of food or nutrition education on the best use of available food.
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Trop Doctjournal_title
Tropical doctorauthors
Abel Rdoi
10.1177/004947558601600119subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1986-01-01 00:00:00pages
45-6issue
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0049-4755issn
1758-1133journal_volume
16pub_type
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