Department of Foods and Nutrition, CCSHAU, Hisar-125 004, India
Department of Food Technology, Guru Jambeshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar-125001, India
*Corresponding author's e-mail: vandanaboora1@gmail.com
Online published on 17 March, 2017.
Clinical examination provides an overall impression of nutritional health and reveals specific signs of malnutrition when these exit and needed for planning promotional measures for the welfare of these children. In the present study 200 children were selected randomly from 100 AWCs of Hisar district of Haryana. The respondents were examined for various signs of nutritional deficiencies like vitamin A deficiency disease, anaemia, iodine deficiency disorder and others. Data on clinical examination revealed that clinical deficiency symptoms were present in many children.
AWCs, Children, Clinical examination, Deficiency disease, Malnutrition, Nutritional health