Infection and protein calorie malnutrition frequently coexist (Smythe, 1958; Brown, 1965; Phillips and Wharton, 1968), and though it is apparent that infection may affect nutrition adversely, it is difficult to prove that malnutrition is a factor in poor response to infection. In 1965 the World Health Organization Expert Committee on nutrition stated: 'The concept that malnutrition could make m...

In a study of 40 children with kwashiorkor, serum albumin, transferrin, and immunoglobulin levels were measured. Treatment included chloroquine, pyrimethamine, multivitamins, folic acid, iron compounds, and a high-protein diet. After two weeks the mean serum transferrin values in the children who survived and those who died were 1.30 mg./ml. and 0.33 mg./ml., respectively. Many of the children ...

Kwashiorkor is a type of protein-energy malnutrition where diet protein deficit is found, in spite of appropriate caloric intake. Cutaneous manifestations include xerosis, with abnormally dry skin that has a flaking enamel paint aspect, a typical red to gray-white hair color, the "flag sign" and more evident edema in lower limbs and face, giving it a full moon appearance. This article reports a...

Introduction: food as a factor in malnutrition s y n d 7 m s Until some 45 years ago the origin was obscure of the childhood syndrome typically including oedema, 'flaky paint' skin rashes, dyspigmented hair and hepatomegaly. Suggested causes at that time included renal failure and multivitamin deficiency. Williams (1933) not only c d e d the syndrome kwashiorkor, the local Ghananian name for it...

The luminal intestinal microflora affects the state of muscular system experimental animals and humans. role nutrition in development skeletal muscles is considered. metabolically active substances secreted by microbiota cachexia, sarcopenia, kwashiorkor effect exercise on gut microbiome was assessed. Possible variants influence probiotics its functional activity experiment humans are presented.

1. Serum colloidal osmotic pressure was measured in children 'at risk' to kwashiorkor, in other with frank signs of the disease and during recovery. Simultaneous estimations of serum albumin and globulin concentrations and assessments of the extent of oedema were also made. 2. During the development of kwashiorkor, serum colloidal osmotic pressure did not decrease significantly until albumin co...

Twenty-six children with marasmus and 27 with kwashiorkor were compared with 23 control children of matching ages. Kwashiorkor was characterized by increased phospholipids (NS), low (P < 0.01) apolipoprotein (apo) B-rich LDL, and near normal apo A-I and HDL-C. In children with marasmus apo B (P < 0.02) LDL-C (NS), apo A-I (P < 0.01), and HDL-C (P < 0.001) decreased. Fifteen children in each gro...