A person with low weight according to his or her height and age considered as low weight. It varies from person to person according to genetic make-up.  Most kids grow quickly in first few years of their life. Some kids can’t meet the expected growth at their age this called “poor weight gain”.

Following chart can help you to know the ideal height and weight of his/her according to age.

  • 4-6 months: child’s weight should be double than birth weight along with slow and steady height growth.
  • 12 months: till this time child’s weight should be 3 times of the birth weight with 2 inches of height growth.
  • 1-2 years: weight at the 12 months + 2-3 kg weight and height at 12 months + 3-5 inch increase in height.
  • 2-9 years: weight at 2 years + increase 3 kg per year, slow and steady growth in height.
  • 9-15 years: weight at 9 years + 4-5 kg increase weight per year.

Causes of poor weight gain:

  • Low calorie intake: In 90% cases low calorie intake is main cause for poor weight gain. As kids are more active at this stage but less interested in eating. Sometimes parents doesn’t have proper understanding about calorie intake for children.
  • Genetic history
  • Hyperthyroidism: in this cases child burn too many calories
  • Emotional problems: in this child limits his/her calorie intake due to body image issues which leads to nutritional insufficiency.
  • Digestion issues: excess vomiting, acid reflux, diarrhea or other complaints causes’ low intake of food leads to low muscle tone and other disorders.
  • Infections: like if child have urinary tract infection, tuberculosis, parasite or other type of infection uses nutrients rapidly and causes low appetite. This causes short term or long term imbalance on child’s growth pattern.
  • Rarely heart problems or kidney problems present then it leads to low weight gain.

Complications of low:

  • Recurrent infections
  • Osteoporosis
  • Delayed puberty
  • Growth retardation.

Homeopathy treatment:

Homeopathy treatment is very much useful to increase weight of the person. Homeopathy treats the underline cause of low weight which causes weight loss. It increases the absorption of food. It decreases the tendency to fall ill in children. Homeopathy treatment treats the underlining infection. Homeopathy medicine also helps to treat psychological or behavioral symptoms while treating under weight gain.  Hence person’s overall health get improved along with weight gain.

Homeopathy provides wide range of medicine for weight gain.  Following are few examples of homeopathy medicines out of many:

Homeopathy medicine:

  • Calcarea phos: it is useful where patient is suffering from low weight gain along with weak bones. Bones are thin, brittle and easily get fractured. Calcarea phos also useful in weak spine disposed to curvature.
  • China: This medicine is useful where patient is having constant diarrhea along with weight-loss. Patient have bloated abdomen, excessive flatulence and other complaints.
  • Ferrum met: This medicine is useful in weight loss with anemia. Person is weak and get tired with slightest exertion. Face is pale and blue circle around eyes present. Bleeding tendencies also present.

Note: self-medication is strictly prohibited.