IT is important to ensure a child’s nutrition needs are met for a healthy future and avoid setting them up for failure – healthwise.
An eight-year-old child, raised on a poor diet, allegedly suffered devastating consequences.
Medical doctor, Erna Nadia, shared the child’s woeful experience of going completely blind one day in class, based on one of her friend’s cases.
Erna said in a Facebook post that the child was diagnosed with a “severe Vitamin A deficiency” after going through multiple medical tests.
“When the dietitian investigated, (it was found that) the child only consumed processed foods such as nuggets, sausages and cookies since infancy until (now),” Erna said in her post.
Her friend, the dietitian, claimed this actually happened in the capital and the child’s parents do not work…