Signs Malnutrition

What is the sign of malnutrition?
Malnutrition is often most severe in children, who need lots to grow well and stay healthy. There are different forms of malnutrition.

• Malnutrition in pregnant women

• Malnutrition in children

Malnutrition in pregnant women:
How to recognize a pregnant women, what she is malnourished or not, first see her outer aberrance if she is thin with loose of folds of skin over the chest, abdomen, and arm. One very big sign is the thin legs and arms, if her legs and arms are thin, then she is suffering from malnutrition. Most importantly conduct a Doctor test the body take all of the medicine descript by the doctor and eat protein rich food, not only protein, eat mixture of all kinds of food as mentioned on earlier posts.

Malnutrition in Children:
There are two types of malnutrition in children;

Mild Malnutrition: it is a most common form of malnutrition, but it is not always noticeable. As comparing to well-nourished child, the mild malnourished child does not grow or gain weight. Although he may appear rather thin and small, he usually does not look sick. However, because he is poorly nourished, he may lack strength (resistance) to fight infection. So he becomes more seriously ill and takes longer to get well as comparing with well-nourished child.
Infectious diseases like Measles, Tuberculosis and many other form of disease mostly attack this form of children, so it is important to give special care and more foods before they become ill.

Sever malnutrition: It mostly occurs with babies because if breast feeding is early or suddenly stopped. The two examples of sever malnutrition is MARASMUS(dry malnutrition) and KWASIORKOR( wet malnutrition)

In my next post I will explain the Marasmus and Kwashirokor.