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Kwashiorkor
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Kwashiorkor
Alternate Names : Protein malnutrition, Protein-calorie malnutrition, Malignant malnutrition
Definition ...
kwashiorkor
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Kwashiorkor
A disease caused by protein deficiency due to malnutrition; occurs mostly in underdeveloped countries. Symptoms include growth retardation, apathy, anemia, and abnormal distention of the abdomen.
Kyphosis ...
Kwashiorkor: Kwashiorkor is a severe deficiency more of protein than of calories. Kwashiorkor is less common than marasmus.
Kwashiorkor
Severe protein malnutrition, especially in children after weaning, marked by lethargy, growth retardation, anemia, edema, potbelly, skin depigmentation, and hair loss or change in hair color. [Heritage]
Kyphosis ...
Kwashiorkor: Malnutrition caused by lack of protein in the diet, but eating nearly the normal amount of Calories. These children often have a large liver; edema of the face and the 4 limbs; thin, weak muscles; failure to gain weight.
KWASHIORKOR (Protein Starvation)
SYMPTOMS"Retarded growth, changes in skin and hair, diarrhea, loss of appetite, edema, and nervous irritability.
Kwashiorkor
A form of malnutrition caused by a deficiency of protein.
Kyphosis ...
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This condition is called kwashiorkor. Not getting enough protein affects how children grow and develop. In some countries, just-weaned children are fed watery cereal. This diet provides enough calories but not enough protein.
Risk factors include Kwashiorkor and other forms of severe protein malnutrition, poor sanitation and poor cleanliness, disorders such as measles or leukemia, and living in an underdeveloped country.
Symptoms ...
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Related malnutrition syndromes are kwashiorkor and marasmus, although these do not always have an underlying causative illness; they are most often symptomatic of severe malnutrition.
biotin deficiency, cachexia, copper deficiency, familial hypophosphatemia, folate deficiency, hypercalciuria, hypocalcemia, hypophosphatemia, iodine deficiency, iron absorption enhancement, iron deficiency, Korsakoff's psychosis, Kwashiorkor, ...
Protein deprivation is also responsible for kwashiorkor, a nutritional deficiency with symptoms resembling those of cirrhosis of the liver. A major cause of cirrhosis worldwide is infection by the hepatitis B virus.
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In some cases, if the malnutrition is not addressed promptly, diseases such as pellagra, beri beri, and kwashiorkor may occur along with permanent damage to the nervous system.
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