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Kwashiorkor
- child fed on diet with very low protein content
- often displaced from breast-feeding by new child
Clinical Features
- apathetic
- lethargic
- severe anorexia
- generalised oedema
- skin pigmentation and thickening
- hair
- dry
- sparse
- may be reddish / yellow
- abdomen distended
Investigations
Treatment
- fluid rescucitation
- refeeding
- 450 kJ/kg/day - 0.6g/kg protein
- vitamin supplements
- prevention of
- hypothermia
- hypoglycaemia
- rehabilitation
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