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Kwashiorkor Form of Malnutrition

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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 The reason it is  called the disease of the elder child is due to the fact that the mothers milk is withdrawn when the next baby is born.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