The five-month-old child grows in size but not in weight, which may be caused by physiological or pathological factors, physiological factors such as normal physiological phenomena; pathological factors such as malnutrition and so on.
1. Physiological factors: five-month-old children may be in the physiological anorexia period, weight gain has been less rapid than before, when the height development continues, may be due to individual physical reasons, resulting in slightly faster development of height, resulting in weight gain is not obvious or does not increase in the case, is a normal physiological phenomenon.
However, this situation is generally not accompanied by other discomforts of the child, and at the same time the duration is relatively short.
2. Pathological factors: If the child’s height development is normal, but the weight does not increase or even accompanied by the phenomenon of obvious wasting, then we should consider the existence of malnutrition, may be due to insufficient intake such as not adding supplemental food in time, resulting in malnutrition, but also due to the consumption of disease, such as pneumonia, tuberculosis infection and other causes of malnutrition.
There may also be other reasons why a five-month-old child grows in size but not in weight, so it is recommended that you go to the hospital in time for a complete examination to determine the cause of the problem, and then give targeted treatment under the guidance of the doctor.