What is malnutrition explain some nutrition deficiency diseases.
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06,000 from nutritional deficiencies (2015) Malnutrition is a condition that results from eating a diet in which one or more nutrients are either not enough or are too much such that the diet causes health problems. It may involve calories, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins or minerals.
Causes: Eating a diet in which nutrients are eit...
Symptoms: Problems with physical or mental d...
Deaths: 406,000 from nutritional deficiencies ...
Risk factors: Not breastfeed, gastroenteritis, pn..
Eating of food that does not have one or more than one nutrients in required amount is known as malnutrition.
Malnutrition is of three types:-
- Calorie malnutrition
- Protein malnutrition
- Protein calorie malnutrition
1)Kwashiorkor disease:- This is due to protein deficiency in diet. Body parts become swollen due to accumulation of water in the intercellular spaces. Very poor muscle development, swollen legs, fluffy face, difficult to eat ,diarrhoea, dry skin are the symptoms of this disease.
2)Marasmus:- This is due to deficiency of both proteins and calories. Generally this disease occurs when there is an immediate second pregnancy or repeated child births.
Lean and weak, swelling limbs, less developed muscles, dry skin, diarrhoea etc., are the symptoms of this disease.