Involved parents, healthy kid
Beneath Iván Sanic López, is a boy one year and one month old, son to Doña Miriam Yolanda López, and Don Werner Alvaro Sanic Jacobo. They live in Chimixayá community in San José Poaquil district, in Chimaltenango. A humble family, but with a great desire to have their boy to grow up well. The conditions in Beneth’s life are scarce, but the environment where the boy is growing up is very clean and organized.
In July 2018 we visited the family to let them know we wanted to help, due to the fact that Beneth Iván was not growing up well. The family was happy and interested, so they accepted the help and support. During the next 5 months, personalized assistance was given to Beneth.
At the moment of the visit, the parents informed us that the boy would get sick a lot and suffered from diarrhea. Beneth was participating in a study about the consumption of a daily egg, and he was the kid with the best results during the intervention. Also during that visit, we were able to talk to the parent, who was very concerned, and told us that his kid would get sick often. We told him to take the boy to a public health clinic. We recommended to perform lab tests. The results indicated the presence of a lot of parasites. The clinic gave him the appropriate treatment, and he was able to get much better. The father expressed interest and thankfulness because the boy’s growth improved.
During the intervention, we told the mother about the importance of the consumption of safe water, hand washing, complementary meals, home hygiene. She put all that into practice which also impacted the child’s results. The following are the activities performed to improve the child’s growth:
- Nutritional status assessment
- Elimination of parasites
- Consumption of an egg every day for 3 months (72 units in total)
- Administering Zinc for 3 months
At the beginning of the intervention the nutritional assessment for Beneth was Moderate Chronic Malnutrition (-2.74 standard deviation). During his last assessment, his result was Normal Nutritional Status (-1.62 standard deviation). In total, Beneth was able to grow 9.3 cms and gained 3 pounds in weight.