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The Secrets To RECOGNIZE MALNUTRITION

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By healthupates


                What is malnutrition?
Malnutrition is a lack of adequate nourishment

Follow the guidelines for preventing malnutrition.

SEVERE MALNUTRITION

    This occurs most often in babies who stopped breastfeeding early or suddenly, and who are not given sufficient high energy foods often enough. severe malnutrition often starts when a child has diarrhea or another infection. We can usually recognize children who are severely malnourished without taking any measurements. The numbers increase dramatically in poor communities during times of famine due to drought or civil war. Two types are described-dry and wet.

DRY MALNUTRITION-OR MARASMUS

This child does not get enough of any kind of food. He is said to have dry malnutrition or marasmus. In other words, he is starved. His body is small very thin and wasted. He is little more than skin and bones.

          This child needs more food especially energy foods.

The Secrets To RECOGNIZE MALNUTRITION

WET MALNUTRITION OR KWASHIORKOR

    This child's condition is called kwashiorkor or wet malnutrition because his feet, hands, and face are swollen. kwashiorkor occurs when a child does not eat enough body-building helper foods (proteins). However, in the very dry parts of Africa, pain lack of food (and protein) just leads to dry malnutrition (starvation).

      It is those parts of Africa that are hot and humid but have a drier hungry season (when main foods have to be stored until the rains for planting come round again), that kwashiorkor is a problem. In hot, damp conditions, stored corn, cassava, and groundnuts can go moldy. It is known that poisons from the mold are not good for small children, especially those short of protein, but they are not harmful to adults. This is certainly one, though maybe not the only reason for kwashiorkor.

OTHER FORMS OF MALNUTRITION

      Among poor people, the most common forms of severe malnutrition are due either to hunger (marasmus) or lack of protein and the use of poorly stored main food(kwashiorkor). However, other forms of malnutrition may result when certain vitamins and minerals are missing from the foods people eat.

  • Night blindness in children who do not get enough vitamin A
  • Rickets from lack of vitamin D
  • Various skin problems, sores on the lips and mouth, or bleeding gums from not eating enough fruits, vegetables, and other foods containing certain vitamins
  • Anemia in people who do not get enough iron
  • Goiter from lack of iodine
     To prevent these types of malnutrition, children should be fed, whenever possible, on food that has not been stored for long. Children also need enough bodybuilding helper foods, to give them protein.

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