Symptoms of malnutrition in infants

summary

Most of the children with malnutrition show gradual weight loss and slow growth of height. However, some children show depressed edema due to insufficient protein intake, which is more common in the face and lower limbs. In severe cases, the whole body may be swollen, but the weight loss is not significant. Most of the malnourished children are depressed, unresponsive, do not like activities, low appetite. Let's take a look at the symptoms of malnutrition.

Symptoms of malnutrition in infants

Symptom 1: severe malnutrition, even low blood pressure, slow heart rate, low heart sound, weak pulse, can occur heart failure. In addition, there may be gastrointestinal digestion and absorption function decline, not easy to adapt to diet changes, often occur dyspepsia, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal distension, may be accompanied by liver, spleen swelling, intellectual development is also relatively backward, or even rigid, slow cognition, clumsy action.

Symptom 2: malnourished children have a poor appetite and eat a small amount of food. In addition to the lack of carbohydrate, fat and protein that provide heat energy, they are often accompanied by the lack of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. They may have corresponding symptoms, such as blurred vision at night, corneal opacity, leukoplakia, perforation, and even blindness.

Symptom 3: the immunity of the sick children is greatly reduced, and infectious diseases are very easy to occur, such as cold, cold, bronchitis, pneumonia, gastroenteritis, meningitis, urinary tract infection, sepsis, sepsis, etc., which makes the condition worse. Long term malnutrition children are mostly short and thin, insensitive to the outside world, do not like activities

matters needing attention

Note: the supply and increase of nutrients should be from less to more, from simple to complex, and avoid repetition due to greedy for more, fast and complete. The specific measures should be determined by the appetite and digestion of children, and it is not suitable to unify the rigid provisions. Appropriate foods have been described in each of the above steps. Mainly: protein food: skimmed milk, evaporated milk, formula milk, soybean milk, egg yolk powder, fish meal, meat paste, liver paste, etc.