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Disorders of nutrition
Concepts tested here
- Protein-energy malnutrition
All Questions
2009 AIPMT 1 question
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When breast feeding is replaced by less nutritive food low in proteins and calories, the infants below the age of one year are likely to suffer fromMarasmus is produced by a simultaneous deficiency of proteins and calories.
It is found in infants less than a year in age, if mother's milk is replaced too early by other foods that are poor in both proteins and caloric value.
The body fat and tissue proteins are used up, the child becomes extremely emaciated with thin limbs, and the skin becomes dry, thin and wrinkled.
Kwashiorkor is produced by protein deficiency unaccompanied by calorie deficiency, in children more than one year old.
Pellagra is due to deficiency of niacin, and rickets to deficiency of vitamin D.
Hence such infants are likely to suffer from marasmus.