Regular weigh-ins during clinic visits key to detecting child growth problems early

Early detection through growth monitoring prevents severe malnutrition, developmental delays, and increased infection risk in children under five.

In the first years of a child's life, a simple number on a clinic scale can carry the weight of a future. Paediatricians across Nigeria are calling for something both obvious and overlooked: that every child be weighed at every hospital visit, that the results be plotted, and that parents be told what those results mean. Growth faltering is often the earliest — sometimes the only — signal of malnutrition, infection, or serious illness, yet the practice of consistent monitoring and communication remains uneven. In the critical window before age five, when the body and brain lay their deepest fo

Regular weigh-ins during clinic visits key to detecting child growth problems early

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