DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i05.069

Pages: 2035-2040

This was a descriptive study was conducted in the outpatient department of Rajshahi medical college hospital, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. From April 2017 to 2018 April. The main objective of the study was to observe the Feeding Pattern, Nutritional Status and Common Diseases of under 2 years’ old children in outpatient department of a tertiary care hospital, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. For the study purpose 467 children were investigated to see the Nutritional Status and Common Diseases of under 2 years, where 52.03% are boys and 47.97% are girls. Mean age of the respondents are 12.62 months. Among them, 54.82 %( 256) respondents received exclusive breastfeeding, 45.18 %( 211) respondents no to exclusive breastfeeding. 61.24% of the respondents are from lower class, 23.98% from middle class and 14.78% from upper class. At the time of study, 68.52% continue breast feeding up to two years. 83.08 % respondents have claimed that they have fed their colostrum milk to their children. Moreover, 63.6% respondents have positive feedback on early initiation of breast milk within 1 hours. Initiation of breast milk within 1 hour 63.6% and after one hour 36.41%.. Type of complement feeding appropriate 42.82% and inappropriate 57.17%. Majority 89% of the studied children’s mid arm circumference were >12.5cm which reflects their good nutritional status. Study shows, severe acute malnutrition (SAM) 3%, moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) 8 % and normal nutritional status 89%. The study recorded the frequency of some common diseases like Common Cold (61.24%), Pneumonia (21.2%), Diarrhoea (10.06%), Viral Fever (3.43%) and others (1.93%) among the study children. Nutritional status is improving in this study. Early initiation of breast feeding and exclusive breast feeding are also satisfactory but complementary feeding practice is not up to the satisfactory level.