Secondary Kwashiorkor

Kwashiorkor.

The colon in kwashiorkor.

Redmond, A. 0. B., Kaschula, R. 0. C., Freeseman, C., and Hansen, J. D. L. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 470. The colon in kwashiorkor. The colon in kwashiorkor was investigated by means of rectal biopsy and sigmoidoscopy in 20 children, followed by barium enema in 10 of the children. The colon during the acute phase of the disease showed a surface epithelial atrophy, with infil...

Diarrhoea in kwashiorkor.

Diarrhoea was a common problem in the kwashiorkor seen in Kampala, contributing to the mortality and delay in recovery. Enteric infection was found in only a few children (8%), but when present it caused particularly severe diarrhoea and was frequently complicated by septicaemia.Sugar intolerance often occurred to lactose and other sugars, both monosaccharide and disaccharide. The children were...

Diarrhoea of Acute Kwashiorkor

Children with kwashiorkor almost invariably have diarrhoea which may be severe and prolonged. The exact cause is often obscure and the management unsatisfactory (Brock et al., 1955; Trowell, 1958; Pretorius and Smit, 1958). Recently Bowie, Brinkman, and Hansen (1965), and Bowie, Barbezat, and Hansen (1967) found that the majority of their kwashiorkor patients with severe diarrhoea responded wit...

Serum siderophilin in kwashiorkor.

Kwashiorkor is known to be associated with low plasma proteins (Edozien, 1960) and low serum ironbinding capacity (Edozien and Udeozo, 1960). Unpublished observations of Neale and Soothill (1958) confirmed that the iron-binding capacity was down to about one-third of a normal level, but showed that the siderophilin (syn. transferrin) was much more profoundly depressed-down to 6 mg./ 100 ml., co...