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Nutrition related concerns are addressed by having the proper documentation from the child's physician. The only way Head Start recognizes an allergy to foods, medications and anything else it has to be documented by the child's physician. Parents can not just fill out a paper or tell the facility about it. Concessions will be made to make sure the child is not served or given anything they are allergic to. The company that makes the breakfast and lunches for each facility will be notified so they can prepare and label it so it does not get mixed in with the regular food. Parents are required to fill out updated information each year about their child which contains information on the child's nutritional habits. Each classroom has a list …show more content…

We only looked at health records for Cherryville. In the 85th to 95th percentile were 4 children and in the 5th percentile were one child.

There were no children with low hemoglobin or hematocrit, but a lot of the records did not have this information listed. At the Lincolnton Head Start, there were 4 African American children, 8 White children, and 5 Hispanic children. I think these numbers are a good ratio of the other centers we visited. Two children listed allergies and they were amoxicillin and shrimp.

The typical beverages that the children seemed to be drinking are milk, juice, and water. No one had soda listed, so I am not sure if the kids are not drinking soda or the parents neglected to put it on the list for fear of being judged. Snacks consisted of crackers, fruit, pudding, chips and beef jerky. All children had listed that they ate three meals a day. Almost all the children were taking supplements of some kind. None of the children had any chronic health problems listed that would require a special nutrition plan. There were two RD recommendations for referral. One child was underweight and one child was

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