#AskTheExpert
Hello Doctor, My son is now 4 years 11 months old. His weight is 15kgs. Kindly guide us how can I help him to gain weight. He is an active child.
Thank you

Question

#AskTheExpert 
Hello Doctor, My son is now 4 years 11 months old. His weight is 15kgs. Kindly guide us how can I help him to gain weight. He is an active child.
Thank you

Accepted Answer

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. 
Diet counsgtelling is also very important .

Accepted Answer

hi
as a child is active ,no need to worry about it much.
give high calorie diet like nuts , dry fruits ,milk and milk based products,beans ,etc
give full cream milk with dry fruits powder everyday

#AskTheExpert Hello Doctor, My son is now 4 years 11 months old. His weight is 15kgs. Kindly guide us how can I help him to gain weight. He is an active child. Thank you