Answers | 100% Verified solutions |Questions with
Correct Answers 2025\2026 A+ Grade
Calorie Requirements: Birth -6 months
- correct answer 120kcal/kg/day
Calorie Requirements: 7mo - 1 year
- correct answer 100kcal/kg/day
Calorie Requirements: 2 - 10 years
- correct answer 100 to 70 kcal/kg/day
Calorie Requirements: adolescents
- correct answer 45 kcal/kg/day
Breast feeding benefits
- correct answer · Perfect food; cannot be duplicated
· Decreases illness in infants
· Maternal antibodies are transferred to infants
· Decreased GI problems such as GERD
· Decreases allergies as it contains anti-inflammatory agents
· Breastfeeding during painful procedures provides analgesia
· The longer the mom breastfeeds, the less chance of the child to be overweight independent of
education and socioeconomic status
Recommended time to exclusive breast feed
- correct answer 6 months and feed on demand
, · Adequate nutrition confirmed by weight gain up to 3 months
- correct answer o 30 g/day (1 oz/day) for the first 3 months
o Gain of 15-20 g/day during subsequent 3 months
· Vitamin Supplementation
- correct answer o Vitamin D (400 IU per day at 2 months of age to adolescence
o Vitamin B12 for breastfeeding mothers who are strict vegetarians
Iron supplementation
- correct answer o For exclusively breast-fed infants: approximately 1 mg/kg/day of iron is
recommended after 6 months of age
o Bottle feeding should contain iron supplementation
o Ideally iron should come from fortified cereals
o Elemental iron supplements can be given if iron intake from diet is not adequate
· Fluoride Supplementation
- correct answer o Supplements only when local water supply is less than 0.3 parts per million (ppm)
o Supplementation first 6 months of life
Initial weight loss after birth
- correct answer 10%
Initial weight loss regained when
- correct answer within 7-14 days
Weight should double by when
- correct answer 5-6 months old
Weight should triple by when
- correct answer 1 year of age