school nurse letter

[devonshiredumpling]

got a letter this morning rom the schoolnurse service to say that after being weighed my dd has been catergorised as severely overweight. we also got a leaflet saying that her diet could be better (she has at least seven portion of friut and veg) we also need to increase her activity level but since moving to the country we cannot get her out of the garden and off her bike ,she is tall for her age at 122.8 cm and she weighs 29.9kg but you cannot see any fat on her she is five .any help would be good aibu to feel peeved about this (she is five and half)

It's all very very odd.

I think the OP would know her child was very slight if she was 19kg. Not how she describes her in the original few posts.

It is indeed very odd, perhaps the 9s looked like 4s ie 24.4 which would give a healthy BMI?

I did mention that my DS is top end of healthy (90th centile) at 24.9 kg. maybe OP has seen that and decided to knock a few kilos off, not taking into consideration that DS is six and smaller than she claims her DD is so if he was the same height then he would be more low range bmi...

Goes off muttering that nurses' handwriting is as bad as doctors these days and dreaming of letters requested and delivered within two days....

Why do you all care so much?

To all the posters talking about centiles- surely there will always be children at 99th centile- that's the while point of them? if everyone is under the 91st centile, the 91st centile will become the top? does that make sense?

Coz there isn't a more exciting thread on MN right now.
Actually, the selfish neighbour parking is pretty good, but hasn't been updated for a spell.

I have now read through the entire thread as well as OPs posts. I would like to ask Jane if healthcare and school do not mix, how does she suggest that children with complex medical needs are supported to have the same opportunities as any other child to access mainstream education?

Re the centiles, after 99.6th centile you add on SDs (standard deviations) so an extremely overweight child's BMI may be +3SD

Why do you care enough to comment on whether we care cinnamon? Clearly you care enough to be reading

I care because I am concerned about this severely underweight child who needs seeing by a GP, clearly if the mother hadn't noticed that her daughter was over measured by 10kg then she needs support and guidance.

Or her child is obese and equally, she needs help!

Dear MNHQ
Could you pop this thread across to Weight Loss chat as this issues raised by OP are not best dealt with on a board as outspoken as this

this is the thread that just keeps on giving!

Anyone else want to see a pic of the child in question?

You know you're all thinking it too

I'm beginning to wonder if the child even exists.

The original post very clearly said she'd received the letter this morning. On 14th.
I'm ever so confused.

According to the NHS website a 6 year old weighing in at 19.9kgs and at 122.8 cm is a healthy weight on the 3rd percentile. I was starting to panic since my 6 year old is 17.8kgs but a bit smaller so I checked both and they are fine.

10Kg less wouldn't make OP's DD severely underweight. My DD is just under 20Kg and 123.5cm; she is on the 3rd percentile and classed as healthy.

The BMI comes to 13.22 which is underweight on the centile charts for girls.

Sorry, 13.26 - which is still underweight.

Rhinos - the BMI for children is worked out using centiles and the new weight would put the child at 3rd centile which is healthy weight still.

No, the pink shaded area is healthy range, which starts at 9th centile.