#AskTheExpert can we give cornflakes for 1year 5 month baby

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yes u can give Good Growth of the child is very important and for this most important is that child should take a healthy diet where its necessary to give a balance diet which should contain all the nutrition required. This is very important for building the immunity also.
 Encourage for green vegetables fruits dairy products all kinds of dal and other protein containing food items  like soyabean eggs etc.
Some nutritional deficiencies can be a cause for less appetite like iron deficiency which is most common.
Supplements like iron supplements and multivitamin with lysine like syp zincovit CL can be given for 1-2 months to increase the appetite. y
Diet counselling is also very important .

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hi
yes you can give
but instead of giving commerically prepared food items,it is best to give homemade freshly cooked food items to a child
so I would suggest to give food items like sheera , rab, dates ladoo (see it's recipe in my profile) , besan ladoo, golpappdi, shakkarpara etc