What do you understand by the expressions synergism between malnutrinational and infection
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Malnutrition can make a person more susceptible to infection, and infection also contributes to malnutrition, which causes a vicious cycle (figure 3). An inadequate dietary intake leads to weight loss, lowered immunity, mucosal damage, invasion by pathogens, and impaired growth and development in children.
Infection itself contributes to malnutrition.
Stimulation of an immune response by infection increases the demand for metabolically derived anabolic energy and associated substrates, leading to a synergistic vicious cycle of adverse nutritional status and increased susceptibility to infection.
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