Epidemiology and Prevention of Severe Protein Malnutrition (Kwashiorkor) in Central America

Pure Red-cell Aplasia in Marasmus and Kwashiorkor Treated with Riboflavine

“…According to Scrimshaw et al (1956), serum riboflavine is often very low in kwashiorkor, and rises during treatment because of the milk diet. In the present patients, in spite of the milk diet, the serum riboflavine may have failed to increase enough to stimulate and sustain marrow activity, or their demands for riboflavine were greater than in those who did not become aplastic.…”

“…Typical cases of marasmus and kwashiorkor attending the King George VI Hospital, Nairobi, were diagnosed clinically by the criteria of Dean and Schwartz (1953), Scrimshaw et al (1957), and Jelliffe and Dean (1959). On admission complete haematological and parasitological examinations were done, together with x-ray examination to discover any chest infection.…”

Malnutrition and the common communicable diseases of childhood in rural Guatemala.

“…It usually is precipitated by an acute infectious disease, commonly acute diarrheal disease. 2 A usual view of infectious disease, seen in less favored areas of the world, is of exotic conditions such as plague, yellow fever, trypanosomiasis, or onchocerciasis. The present study is of behavior in those regions of the simple diseases that are prevalent wherever one lives: measles, whooping cough, mumps, chickenpox, and rubella-the common communicable diseases of childhood.…”

Répercussion de l’insuffisance de protéines sur le développement du squelette

“…D'autre part, les examens radiologiques exécutés dans des pays tropicaux et sous-tropicaux sur des enfants jusqu'à l'âge de 14 ans, qui souffraient de dystrophie protéique, ont décelé des retards im portants (jusqu'à 50% dans les 5 premières années) dans le procéssus de m aturation des os, bien que l'apport de calcium, de phosphore et surtout de vitam ine D était presque adéquat et que les enfants ne présentaient pas de manifestations rachitiques (4,5,12,15). Toutefois, la complexité des facteurs alimentaires et d'autre nature qui peuvent agir dans de pareilles conditions de 1 Expression utilisée par nous au lieu de eelle de facteurs (principes) nutritifs.…”