Nutritional Status by Weight for Height and Body Mass Index in Children with Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate from 2 to 5 Years
Keywords:
nutritional status, children, cleft lip and cleft palateAbstract
Background and Objective: Patients with cleft lip and cleft palate are risky to malnutrition because of sucking and swallowing problems. Even though the surgery might improve sucking problem, the evaluation of nutritional status could enhance the appropriate care plan. This study aimed to evaluate the nutritional status and compare the nutritional status using the weight for height measurement to the body mass index (BMI).
Methods: The retrospective descriptive study collected the data of the children with cleft lip and cleft palate aged 2 - 5 years old who participated in the Tawanchai Cleft Center during 2016 – 2020. The weight for height and BMI were used to measure the nutritional status.
Results: 96 participants were evaluated the nutritional status. When the weight for height were used, there were underweight 20.80%, normal weight 76.00%, overweight 3.10% and obesity was not found. When the BMI were used, there were underweight 43.80%, normal weight 41.70%, overweight 11.50% and obesity 3.10%. And when the participants were categorized into groups of gender, ages, and types of clefts, the groups of underweight by the weight for height measurement have lesser numbers than the BMI measurement groups.
Conclusion: The nutritional status measurement of children with cleft lip and cleft palate by the weight for height were found the lesser number of underweight participants than the BMI measurement in the categorical of gender, ages and types of cleft lip and cleft palate group.
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