Pengaruh Pemberian Buah Pepaya Terhadap Nafsu Makan Anak Berumur 2-5 Tahun di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Kuranji

Abstract

The appetite is a desire or urge to eat due to hunger. Appetite disorder is often experienced by toddlers. They are often picky food and easily exposed to infectious diseases so that experiencing malnutrition. For this reason, it needs an effort to overcome eating disorders for toddlers through nutritious therapy which is rich in vitamins, mineral and can make digestive system better. Papaya is rich in nutrion that can improve the appetite of toddlers. The purpose of this research is to know the influence of consuming 1 piece of papaya a day for a month to increase appetite of toddlers at Korong gadang posyandu, puskesmas kuranji (kuranji community health centre) working area 2012.The writer had 20 toddlers who are losing weight for the last one month for sampling. The research has been done since February 4 th until March 5 th 2012. The writer applied quantitative experiment one group pre-test design without control group. The toddlers are weight by using digital scale. The writer applied T-pair test for the statistic test. The result showed that there is a great increasing in toddler's appetite. We can see it through the toddler's weight scale after the intervention (=o 0,000). Based on the results of the research, the writer suggests puskesmas kuranji to promote society to consume 1 piece of papaya per day as nutritious therapy for the toddlers who have appetite disorder.

Effect of Moringa oleifera leaf powder supplementation on weight gain of toddler in the working area of Naibonat health center, Kupang regency

“…The content of vitamin A in Moringa can prevent anorexia and have an impact on increasing appetite as well. 23 In the working area of Naibonat Health Center Kupang Regency, there are 1,734 children under five years old with good nutritional status and 104 children under five years old with undernourished status. In the treatment group there were 12 children with good nutritional status who experienced a weight gain with an average of 0.64 kg.…”

Pengaruh Buah Pepaya Terhadap Nafsu Makan Anak 2-5 Tahun

“…Berbeda dengan GHI (Global Hunger Index) yang menyatakan bahwa Indonesia tergolong negara yang termasuk kategori serius atau berada dibawah level mengkawatirkan dalam jumlah penderita gizi buruk. Jumlah penderita gizi buruk seperti gunung es, kasus yang muncul kepermukaan sedikit (1) .…”

“…Anak yang tidak menyukai makanan tertentu misalnya buah atau sayur akan terjadi defisiensi vitamin A. Bila hanya mau minum susu saja akan terjadi anemi defisiensi besi. Bila kekurangan kalori dan protein akan terjadi kekurangan energi protein (1) 7(3) (8) .…”

“…Multivitamin berupa buah -buahan yang memiliki nilai gizi yang cukup tinggi, rasanya manis, dengan harga murah dan mudah didapatkan adalah Carica Pepaya (9) (1) (10) . (1) .…”

“…Kandungan vitamin dan mineral dalam buah pepaya akan memulihkan nafsu makan anak, memperkuat daya tahan tubuh dan memulihkan kondisi sakit pada anak. Pepaya merupakan buah yang memiliki nilai gizi yang cukup tinggi, rasanya manis, dengan harga murah dan mudah didapat (1) . Seorang ibu harus mengetahui berbagai hal yang terkait dengan perannya dalam memilih menu dan jenis makanan yang akan diberikan pada anak.…”