THE STORY OF KWASHIORKOR*

Autor: Cicely D. Williams
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Nutrition Reviews. 31:334-340
ISSN: 1753-4887
0029-6643
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1973.tb07041.x
Popis: The name Kwashiorkor comes from the Ga language of Accra Ghana and is used to describe the disease of the deposed baby when the next 1 is born. Nutritional disorders may coexist with other forms of disease and may vary with the age of the patient severity of the condition how long it existed whether there are coexisting conditions environmental conditions emotional conditions and habituation adaptation and individual variation. For too long physicians have been dominated by treating infection without appreciating the role of nutrition. Early classification of this disease was met with little response or much denial of symptoms labeling it Infant Pellegra. 4 cases were autopsied between 1931-1932 and showed a fatty liver with a history of abnormality of diet irritability edema delayed growth with severe terminal dermatosis unlike Pellegra. In recent years biochemical research has led to the description of Kwasiorkor as a protein-calorie malnutrition and is the most serious and widespread form of malnutrition. It is often preceded by such diseases as measles or whooping cough. Accurate investigation of the many and various causes of malnutrition and metabolic disorders is greatly needed. Health care personnel need to be better trained in clinical nutrition and management of conditions leading to nutritional disorders.
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