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Classification of Malnutrition
Malnutrition with/without complications
Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) are extremely vulnerable to life-threatening complications and have a high mortality if given inadequate or inappropriate care. They require immediate, intensive treatment.
SAM children with other medical conditions are referred to as with complications and those without are referred to as without complications.
Q. Select the words that best describe severely malnourished children ‘without complications’ and ‘with complications’ and place them into the correct boxes’. Then click the submit button.
Without complications
With complications
a) Severe oedema (grade 3)
b) High fever
c) Good appetite
d) Pneumonia
e) Dehydration
f) Alert
g) Clinically well
h) Poor appetite
i) Infant aged <6m
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The correct answers are: a) Severe oedema (grade 3), b) High fever, d) Pneumonia, e) Dehydration, h) Poor appetite and i) Infant aged <6m best describe severely malnourished children with complications; and c) Good appetite, f) Alert and g) Clinically well best describe severely malnourished children without complications.Please complete the question.
