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    Kwashiorkor: Click Here For Photo of Child With Kwashiorkor

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    Kwashiorkor is a form of acute protein-energy malnutrition in children where fluid accumulates in the tissues, especially the feet and legs, causing swelling. These children are at higher risk of death than children with only wasting. Marasmus is another form where children become thin without swelling, due to lack of protein and energy. Some children exhibit signs of both kwashiorkor and marasmus, called marasmic-kwashiorkor. Both conditions are life-threatening emergencies requiring treatment through medically supervised feeding programs.

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    Kwashiorkor is a form of acute protein-energy malnutrition in children where fluid accumulates in the tissues, especially the feet and legs, causing swelling. These children are at higher risk of death than children with only wasting. Marasmus is another form where children become thin without swelling, due to lack of protein and energy. Some children exhibit signs of both kwashiorkor and marasmus, called marasmic-kwashiorkor. Both conditions are life-threatening emergencies requiring treatment through medically supervised feeding programs.

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    Kwashiorkor is a form of acute protein-energy malnutrition in children where fluid accumulates in the tissues, especially the feet and legs, causing swelling. These children are at higher risk of death than children with only wasting. Marasmus is another form where children become thin without swelling, due to lack of protein and energy. Some children exhibit signs of both kwashiorkor and marasmus, called marasmic-kwashiorkor. Both conditions are life-threatening emergencies requiring treatment through medically supervised feeding programs.

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    Kwashiorkor: Click Here For Photo of Child With Kwashiorkor

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    Kwashiorkor is a form of acute protein-energy malnutrition in children where fluid accumulates in the tissues, especially the feet and legs, causing swelling. These children are at higher risk of death than children with only wasting. Marasmus is another form where children become thin without swelling, due to lack of protein and energy. Some children exhibit signs of both kwashiorkor and marasmus, called marasmic-kwashiorkor. Both conditions are life-threatening emergencies requiring treatment through medically supervised feeding programs.

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    Kwashiorkor

    Some children with acute protein-energy malnutrition develop oedema. Oedema is an


    accumulation of fluid in the tissue, especially the feet and legs. Such children may not lose
    weight when developing acute protein-energy malnutrition because the weight of this excess
    oedema fluid counterbalances the weight of lost fat and muscle tissue. These children may look
    fat or swollen. Such children have kwashiorkor.
    Click here for photo of child with kwashiorkor
    Kwashiorkor is very important to distinguish because the risk of death for children with
    kwashiorkor is higher than it is in children with just wasting or thinness.
    Marasmus
    Other children, for reasons not entirely understood, develop thinness without oedema. This
    condition is called marasmus.
    Click here for photo of child with marasmus
    Some children have signs of both kwashiorkor and marasmus. They have marasmic-kwashiorkor.
    Both kwashiorkor and marasmus are life-threatening medical emergencies which need to be
    treated by sophisticated feeding programmes. Such programmes must be run by medical
    professionals with experience in refeeding children wit

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