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This study was carried out to assess the prevalence of malnutrition among the preschool children aged 2-5 years (24-60 months) and practices of exclusive breastfeeding among mothers in Ejigbo local government area osun state. 300 pre-school children were assessed for their nutritional status. The semi-structured questionnaire, mid upper arm circumference measurement. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 23. The main purpose of this study is to assess the nutritional status of preschool children and exclusive breastfeeding practices among mothers. The research shown that using MUAC (45) 14.9% were malnourished, 85% were normal. Its was concluded that 20% of the male were been affected with acute malnutrition while 22% of the female was affected with acute malnutrition, 26.4% of the mothers didn’t practices exclusive breastfeeding while 22% of the mothers gave agbo concoction to their wards during breastfeeding, 4.6% introduced complementary food at 3 months, 12% at 4 months, 8.6% at 5 month, and 74.6% introduced complementary food food at 6 months, therefore the study concluded that due to low family income, lack of exclusive breastfeeding and poor complementary feeding practices among mothers malnutrition was slightly high among the preschool children which need nutritional intervention..

Malnutrition, Exclusive Breastfeeding, Mid Upper Arm Circumference, Complementary Feeding

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