Eight-month-old-baby weighing 17 kg baffles doctors
05:20AM Thu 20 Apr, 2017
Amritsar, Punjab: Chahat Kumar from Amritsar is just eight months old but already weighs 17 kg. She started gaining excess weight when she was barely four months old.
As per doctors, the average weight of a baby girl in this age-group is usually 6-9 kg. For her age, the baby not only weighs double, her diet is also that of a 10-year-old, says her doctor.
In an interview with Barcroft TV, published on April 13, Chahat’s father Suraj Kumar said, “She gets hungrier than other babies of her age and demands milk and food often.”
What has him and the doctors worried is that her weight is increasing day-by-day.
“When Chahat was born, she was like any other normal child. After four months, we realised that her weight was increasing,” Reenu Kumar, Chahat’s mother, told Barcroft TV.
When the worried parents went to the doctor, he asked for her blood test. However, due to the thickness of her skin, her blood sample could not be taken.
Chahat’s doctor Dr Vasudev Sharma, who has seen her grow since she was born, says that this is the first such case that he has encountered where the child’s weight is shooting up so rapidly – just four months after birth.
“We recommended the parents to visit a paediatric specialist at the civil hospital in Amritsar. However, as the baby has a lot of fat, the blood test could not be taken properly,” Dr Sharma said, in an interview to Barcroft TV.
The baby is reported to have breathing and sleeping issues because of her excess weight.
At this moment, her parents only wish that she could play with other children and have a healthy life and future, but are clueless about what their next step should be.
In an interview with Barcroft TV, published on April 13, Chahat’s father Suraj Kumar said, “She gets hungrier than other babies of her age and demands milk and food often.”
What has him and the doctors worried is that her weight is increasing day-by-day.
“When Chahat was born, she was like any other normal child. After four months, we realised that her weight was increasing,” Reenu Kumar, Chahat’s mother, told Barcroft TV.
When the worried parents went to the doctor, he asked for her blood test. However, due to the thickness of her skin, her blood sample could not be taken.
Chahat’s doctor Dr Vasudev Sharma, who has seen her grow since she was born, says that this is the first such case that he has encountered where the child’s weight is shooting up so rapidly – just four months after birth.
“We recommended the parents to visit a paediatric specialist at the civil hospital in Amritsar. However, as the baby has a lot of fat, the blood test could not be taken properly,” Dr Sharma said, in an interview to Barcroft TV.
The baby is reported to have breathing and sleeping issues because of her excess weight.
At this moment, her parents only wish that she could play with other children and have a healthy life and future, but are clueless about what their next step should be.
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