Underweight

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Underweight

Asked for Female, 22 Years

I am a girl. My height is 5'9 but my weight is 47 kg. I am like this since my childhood. Now I am thinking I have some health issue and that's why I am not gaining weight.

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Dr. Sapan Jain

Bariatric Surgeon 25 yrs exp Udaipur

Kindly get investigated for Thyroid levels and pls revert

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Take high protein foods like all milk and milk products, eggs, pulses, sprouts, nuts, tofu, rajmah, chole, soyabean, paneer, chicken, fish etc. to gain muscle mass.