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Unit assessment
Choose the most appropriate answers.
4. Which of the following conditions, if present, would denote severe
malnutrition ‘with complications’?
a) High fever
b) Severe anaemia
c) Anorexia
d) Colic
e) Generalised oedema
f) Lethargy
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All answers are correct except d). Other clinical features associated with complicated malnutrition include respiratory distress,
heart failure, hypoglycaemia, hypothermia and profuse
diarrhoea.
Please answer the question first.
