The relationship of supplementary feeding, breast milk (MP-ASI) to infants with the event of diarrhea

Background: Diarrhea is one of the causes of death in toddlers, one of the factors that causes diarrhea is MP ASI. Based on the largest proportion of diarrhea sufferers at the Baros Health Center in the last 3 months of October, November, and December, there were 87 infants aged 0-12 months, 29 infants aged 12-24 months, and 31 infants aged 25-60 months. Objective: To determine the relationship between complementary feeding and the incidence of diarrhea in infants aged 3-12 months in the working area of ​​the Baros Public Health Center, Sukabumi City. Methods: The study used a cross-sectional population and the total sampling was 48 infants aged 3-12 months. Data processing using Chi-Square. Results:  The inappropriate provision of complementary feeding to infants aged 3-12 months was 26 respondents (54.2%) and the appropriate ones were 22 respondents (45.8 %), the incidence of diarrhea in infants aged 3-12 months who had diarrhea as many as 28 respondents (58.6%) and who did not have diarrhea as many as 20 respondents (41.7%). Research shows that there is a relationship between giving complementary feeding to infants aged 3-12 months with the incidence of diarrhea with a value of 0.00 (<0.05).&nbsp