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Symptoms

Poor or slow weight gain

It is some time called as failure to thrive and it can be a manifestation of medical conditions, social or environmental factors. The common symptoms are frequent crying, fussiness, missed milestones like not rolling over, sitting or walking. The common causes are premature birth, poor nutrition due to inadequate breastfeeding or inability to breastfeed, interference with child’s food access or ability to digest food, gastric reflux, or diarrhoea. Treatment depends on identifying and treating root cause of slow weight gain.

Breastfeeding issues

The common causes are sore nipples, not enough breast milk, breast engorgement and baby not latching properly, women with infection like HIV or tuberculosis. It can leads to slower weight gain, weak immune system and poor mother baby relation. It can be treated by relieving the underlying cause. Babies can be feed with baby formula after discussing with the health care provider.

Hunger

Typical hunger cues in babies include licking lips, fussiness, sucking on everything, sticking his or her tongue out and putting his or hand into their mouth repeatedly. 

Chills

It is the body’s way of producing the heat to tackle the cold feeling. It is more common the young children. Chills can be caused by cold temperature, viral or bacterial infection. It is also an important symptom of disease like malaria. It can occur with fever and associated with shaking or shivering. Medicines like paracetamol, ibuprofen can help in reducing fever and chills.

Malaria fever

A fever is a temporary increase in body temperature above the normal range of 36. 1 – 37.2˚Celsius (97 – 99˚ Fahrenheit). Fever is a sign of illness and the most common causes are infections (bacteria, virus or parasite like malaria). Fever can also result from inflammation.