European Occupational Health Series : Year 1993; Icp, Infection Prevention and Control, Worker's Health, No. 011-In French: Effets Tardifs et Chroniques Wes Substances Chimiques Sub les Lieux de Travail

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Title:	European Occupational Health Series : Year 1993; Icp, Infection Prevention and Control, Worker's Health, No. 011-In French: Effets Tardifs et Chroniques Wes Substances Chimiques Sub les Lieux de Travail
Author:	World Health Organization
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Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
INTRODUCTION This report is the result of a recommendation made by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Nutrition at its first session in Geneva in October 1949. The relevant passage in the committee's report reads as follows : One of the most widespread nutritional disorders in tropical and subtropical areas is a syndrome at present ill-defined known by various names such as ' kwashiorkor ', malignant malnutrition, polydeficiency disease, ' m'buaki ', syndrome dkpigmentationoedbme, infantile pellagra, etc. The committee is satisfied that this condition is not identical with classical pellagra, and suggests that the name ' infantile pellagra ' should not be used for this syndrome. It appears that the highest incidence of the disease occurs in infants and young children and that the mortality-rates in some parts of Africa are disturbingly high.

Table of Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Medical aspects of kwashiorkor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Definition, and description of individual clinical characters . . . . . . . 5 General clinical picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Nutritional cirrhosis and primary carcinoma of the liver . . . . . . . . 25 Frequency of the syndrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Kwashiorkor and diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Food consumption and feeding practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Relation between kwashiorkor and diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Etiology of kwashiorkor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Prevention of kwashiorkor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Increasing the supply of proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 The hungry months . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Supplementary feeding of infants and young children . . . . . . . . . 57 Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Immediate action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Recommendations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Summary RBsume . . . . . . . . . . . I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Annex 1. Recent and current clinical and biochemical studies in Africa . 65 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69