대구지역 영유아의 이유실태에 관한 조사

Abstract

Breast feeding is recongnized as the ideal method of providing nutrition for the first year of life but infant needed additional supply of nutrition oher than milk from 5-6 months of life for providing good nutrition. The weaning diet should be started in proper time to fullfill these purpose. This study was carried out to find out present status of weaning in infant and to give a good guidelines to the mothers who take care of the infants who are ready to weaning diet. Five hundred mothers who visited well baby clinic of Dong San Hospital, Keimyung Univerity from January to JUly 1989 answered to the questions for weaning status. The results of the questions were analysed and obtained following results. Weaning was started at 3 months of age in 24.4% of the infants and 76.6% started between three and six months of age. Weaning was completed at 12 months in 59.0%, 47.6% of the mother offered commercial foods and 31.0% used home made foods. The beef(74.3%) was the most commoly used among meats. apple(55.8%) among fruits and spinach(53.8%) among vegetables. The main source of obtaining knowledge about weaning were the book on childcare(28.4%) and the newspaper or television(22.3%). The problem following weaning were mainly gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea (21.7%), constipation (14.7%) and vomiting (9.2%)