Symptoms
Visual symptoms of malnourishment are....
Low body weight, prominent bones, thin arms and legs, stunted growth.
What are the two eating disorders?
Anorexia and bulimia.
Not fitting in with their peers due to stunted growth which makes them appear younger and smaller than typical for their age
Fill in the blank: weakness, faintness, __________
fatigue
What is a cause to limited financial resources?
Low income
Leads to ______ failure
Growth
T/F: Malnutrition is easy to treat.
False. It is important to treat malnourishment and requires medical assistance. Some individuals may not have the right resources to be able to have enough nutritious foods.
What are the emotional symptoms?
Irritability, apathy and inattention
What are the two medical conditions that make it difficult to eat?
What a child consumes in the first ______ days of their life can impact how they learn in school
1000
How long can it take to correct severe undernutrition? (days, weeks, months, years)
Several weeks
Fill in the blank: Brittle hair, hair loss and ____________.
Hair pigment loss.
What are some reasons to limited access to nutritious foods?
Location, not having things imported, weather.
A weakened immune system can cause an individual more susceptible to...
repeated infections
Why is treating malnourishment difficult?
Treatmenting malnutrition is difficult due to refeeding disorder and the causes for malnutrition are difficult to solve (financial situations, limited access to nutritious foods)
What is Edema?
(swelling with fluid)
What three things causes an individual to need extra calories?
Pregnancy, breastfeeding and childhood.
Why do malnourished individuals not feel pleasure to eating foods?
Their brains don't produce dopamine when they eat.
Your body adapts in many ways to adapt to undernutrition. Refeeding asks it to change back to its old ways of operating and this change can sometimes be more than it’s prepared to handle