Question

supose you are visiting to the areas of country having lack of balance diet due to poverty.you come across the house and saw three kids ABC.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Suppose I am visiting to the areas of country having lack of balance diet due to poverty. I come across the house and saw three kids, then those are most likely to be suffering through malnutrition. And some of such conditions are like Marasmus and Kwashiorkar.

Explanation:

Protein-energy malnutrition  (PEM) may affect large sections of the population during drought, famine  and political turmoil.

1. Marasmus is produced by a simultaneous deficiency of proteins and  calories. It is found in infants less than a year in age, if mother’s milk is  replaced too early by other foods which are poor in both proteins and  caloric value. This often happens if the mother has second pregnancy or  childbirth when the older infant is still too young. In Marasmus, protein  deficiency impairs growth and replacement of tissue proteins; extreme  emaciation of the body and thinning of limbs results, the skin becomes  dry, thin and wrinkled. Growth rate and body weight decline considerably.  Even growth and development of brain and mental faculties are impaired

1. Kwashiorkar is produced by protein deficiency unaccompanied by calorie  deficiency. It results from the replacement of mother’s milk by a high calorie, low protein diet in a child more than one year in age. Like marasmus,  kwashiorkor shows wasting of muscles, thinning of limbs, failure of growth  and brain development. But unlike marasmus, some fat is still left under  the skin; moreover, extensive oedema and swelling of body parts are seen.

remember that those kids may show hyposecretion (less) of some of the hormones like Thyroxine ( due to lack of iodine), or high BP (due to less no. of RBC because of less amount of B12 or deficiency of iron (FE is essential for Hemoglobin)

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