She had what is called kwashiorkor i.e. severe protein and calorie malnutrition. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
I notice one young boy's badly swollen feet: they're a sign of a medical condition known as kwashiorkor, or severe protein deficiency. From Wordnik.com. [Jeffrey Sachs's $200 Billion Dream] Reference
Nutritional diseases such as kwashiorkor are no longer notifiable, and so it is not easy to estimate their scale. From Wordnik.com. [Triumphs' Part 2 - Health, Welfare and the Family] Reference
The West learned a new word, "kwashiorkor," the fatal lack of protein from which thousands of children were dying. From Wordnik.com. [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]
"kwashiorkor" describes the malnourishment of a child weaned too early because his or her mother became pregnant again too quickly. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19] Reference
Disease and plague e.g. bubonic, cholera, kwashiorkor. From Wordnik.com. [As we keep rollin’ back the clock to the ominous times for women] Reference
Do not administer in cases of oedema caused by kwashiorkor. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
Skin may also go lighter as a result of tuberculosis or kwashiorkor. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
Left untreated, kwashiorkor can whittle a child away to practically nothing. From Wordnik.com. [World Vision: Malnutrition Starves Children, Economies of a Lifetime of Potential] Reference
A child with kwashiorkor has swollen feet, hands, and face, and peeling sores. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 33] Reference
Never administer for other types of oedema, particularly not for kwashiorkor. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
The winged bean (Psophocarpus palustris Desv.) in the treatment of kwashiorkor. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
Oedema is an essential nutrition indicator and indicates kwashiorkor (see Annex 3). From Wordnik.com. [15. Food and Nutrition] Reference
But the patient he was thinking of was not the Black child suffering from kwashiorkor or pellagra. From Wordnik.com. [reich14] Reference
Do not administer in cases of severe renal failure, allergy to sulfonamides or kwashiorkor oedema. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
Tuberculosis, pellagra, kwashiorkor, gastro-enteritis, and scurvy bring death and destruction of health. From Wordnik.com. [I am Prepared to Die] Reference
So do pictures of parched landscapes and kids with kwashiorkor – the disease that causes bloated bellies. From Wordnik.com. [Too little, too late for Niger] Reference
Severe forms of general malnutrition are 'dry malnutrition' or marasmus, and 'wet malnutrition' or kwashiorkor. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 28] Reference
The high quality of the seed protein was evident in experiments conducted with children suffering from kwashiorkor. From Wordnik.com. [3 Food Use and Nutritive Value] Reference
If by using seaweed as food man gets adequate levels of protein, this means that we have freed him from kwashiorkor. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
There are 3 major clinical forms of severe protein energy malnutrition - marasmus, kwashiorkor and marasmic kwashiorkor. From Wordnik.com. [1. Food crises] Reference
Yet it has been estimated that one third of a pint of milk a day is sufficient to prevent a child from contracting kwashiorkor. From Wordnik.com. [reich14] Reference
General or patchy, partial loss of skin and hair color in children may be caused by severe malnutrition (kwashiorkor; or pellagra). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 22] Reference
As images of Ethiopian babies with kwashiorkor bellies beamed into Western living rooms, foreign aid and food poured into the country. From Wordnik.com. [Arrest This Man] Reference
The babies in Ukhahlamba had died from severe malnutrition, kwashiorkor, pneumonia, poor sanitation and marasmus, the Department said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The cost of treating kwashiorkor patients at one hospital alone - the King Edward VIII in Durban - was R700,000 over a ten-year period. From Wordnik.com. [reich14] Reference
The reported increase in kwashiorkor and malnutrition is one of the serious consequences of the deficiencies in the delivery of relief. From Wordnik.com. [STATEMENT ON THE De MEYER COMMISSION INTO MALADMINISTRATION IN LEBOWA] Reference
With kwashiorkor, the baby is bloated, with fat feet and cracked skin. From Wordnik.com. [International Medical Corps] Reference
"I had an eight-year-old boy in the ward with kwashiorkor," said Dr Foster. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicle Herald - Front Page Stories] Reference
The boy has kwashiorkor, which means he does not get enough protein in his diet. From Wordnik.com. [VOA News: Top Stories] Reference
A doctor in a mission hospital in Nyanga district was examining a child with severe kwashiorkor. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicle Herald - Front Page Stories] Reference
(kwashiorkor) is virtually unheard of in the first world, including vegans. From Wordnik.com. [MoJo Blogs and Articles] Reference
⇐ Today I learned about kwashiorkor. From Wordnik.com. [Something Fierce] Reference
Cases of kwashiorkor. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Her daughter had the red hair of kwashiorkor. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicle Herald - Front Page Stories] Reference
"suffer from a kwashiorkor of detail", he said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
377-78 Kusner, Kathy, 311 kwashiorkor, 258-59 Kyrgystan, 27-28. From Wordnik.com. [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]
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