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A 10 page paper. Kwashiorkor is a complicated form of malnutrition in that the simple addition of food does not cure it. It is caused by a lack of protein in the diet and almost always occurs in infants and children who have been weaned from their mother's breast milk and given a diet of starches and carbohydrates with little or no protein. This essay discusses the incidence of the disease, the symptoms, diagnosis, the differences of this form of malnutrition, treatment interventions, and recent research regarding kwashiorkor. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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from their mothers breast milk and given a diet of starches and carbohydrates with little or no protein. About 40 million children across the world are diagnosed with kwashiorkor, the
overwhelming majority of whom live in Third World countries. It does occur in developed nations although in extremely low numbers and typically due to caregiver ignorance regarding nutrition or food
fads. When caught early enough, this disease can be treated successfully. The longer the child has the disease the more physician and mental damage will be done. Recent research has
offered new hope in treating and preventing kwashiorkor. Report Kwashiorkor was first identified by Cicely Williams in 1933 (Todhunter, 1976). After twenty years of working with the disease in
Africa, the disease was formally characterized as kwashiorkor in 1953 (Liu et al, 2001). The name is from the Kwa language of coastal Ghana (Wikipedia, 2002) and literally means
"the disease of the elder child when a new one is born" (Greenpeace International, 1999). Kwashiorkor is a pediatric disease of malnutrition, which is caused by a deficiency of vitamins
and proteins in the infants diet (Greenpeace International, 1999). Kwashiorkor is also referred to as Protein-calorie malnutrition, Protein malnutrition, Malignant malnutrition and Mehl? hrschaden (Hait, 2001). The reason it is
called the disease of the elder child is due to the fact that the mothers milk is withdrawn when the next baby is born. In Africa, the milk is replaced
by corn, or maize (Greenpeace International, 1999). Williams, after 20 years of observation, found that the symptoms most often appeared in the second or third year of the childs
life (Liu et al, 2001). The mothers breast milk contains important amino acids that are essential to a childs growth (Wikipedia, 2002). When the child is weaned and the
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