What is malnutrition
Malnutrition includes both overnutrition and undernutrition. Excess nutrition refers to the intake of energy is too high or the intake of nutrients is too high, which will cause some harm to the body, and even cause poisoning, such as: excessive energy intake may lead to overweight and obesity of the body, causing an increase in the risk of chronic diseases, and the intake of some nutrients is too high and even cause poisoning, such as: vitamin A and vitamin D excessive intake will cause human poisoning. Nutritional deficiency refers to the body's insufficient intake of energy or nutrients, nutritional deficiencies may lead to nutritional deficiencies, long-term nutritional deficiencies, such as: insufficient energy and protein intake may cause protein and energy malnutrition.
Insufficient vitamin intake can cause vitamin A deficiency, hepatitis disease night blindness, etc., vitamin D deficiency can cause rickets, vitamin B deficiency can cause beriberi, vitamin B deficiency can cause oral reproductive syndrome, lack of niacin can cause leper disease, vitamin C deficiency can cause scurvy, and folate deficiency can lead to fetal neural tube malformations, which is a manifestation of malnutrition and malnutrition.
Symptoms of malnutrition
Symptoms of nutritional deficiencies manifest themselves in many ways. If it is malnutrition with energy and protein, the main manifestation is small hand edema. If there is a serious lack of protein and energy intake, it will cause dry and lean protein energy malnutrition, which is manifested as small hand skin and bones. Manifestations of other nutrient deficiencies, such as vitamin A deficiency can cause dry eye disease, cause eye lesions, serious ulcer perforation of the cornea or even blindness, vitamin A deficiency can also cause night blindness. Vitamin D deficiency can cause rickets, and the clinical manifestations of rickets include square skulls, chicken breasts, funnel breasts, X-legs, O-legs, etc.
Vitamin B1 deficiency causes beriberi, which is clinically manifested as heart disease, edema, shortness of breath, electrocardiogram abnormalities, right ventricular hypertrophy, and beriberi can also cause peripheral neuritis. Vitamin B2 deficiency can cause oral reproductive syndrome, manifested by angular cheilitis, cheilitis, glossitis, seborrheic dermatitis, and scrotalitis. Niacin deficiency can lead to the typical manifestations of leprosy as dermatitis, diarrhea, and dementia. Vitamin C deficiency can cause scurvy, which is manifested by bleeding gums, bleeding spots on the skin, joint lesions, and slower healing of skin wounds. Folate deficiency can cause fetal neural tube malformations, etc.
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