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What is malnutrition?
Below are Sheema, who is wasted, and Mary, who is stunted. Look at their growth charts and see how their weight and height changes.
Describe what you see from their weight charts and click the submit button.
Describe what you see from their weight charts and click the submit button.
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Mary is stunted. Stunting occurs over a prolonged period of inadequate nutrition, often with repeated episodes of illness. You can see from the chart that Mary has been growing slowly for a long time. Mary however may be overweight. On the other hand Sheema has acute malnutrition. There has been a sudden loss of weight as shown on the chart. Some children with acute malnutrition may also be stunted, like Sheema. Their stunted growth indicates that they have been undernourished for a long time and/or they were growth-restricted before birth. So acute malnutrition (wasting and/or oedema) can coexist with chronic malnutrition.
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