Sentences with phrase «with kwashiorkor»

Gatheru, Z., Kinoti, S., Alwar, J., and Mwita, M. Serum zinc levels in children with kwashiorkor aged one to three years at Kenyatta National Hospital and the effect of zinc supplementation during recovery.

Similarly, we could take microbes from Malawian children with kwashiorkor, a profound nutritional deficiency, transplant them into germ - free mice and transfer the malnutrition, although the mice that received the microbes from the healthy identical twins of the sick children did fine.

The mice with the bacteria from the child with kwashiorkor lost, then gained and lost again, more weight than the mice with bacteria from the healthy twin.

A second study led by Indi Trehan, another member of the team at Washington University, showed that children with kwashiorkor were less likely to become malnourished again if they were given antibiotics along with a nutrient - rich diet (NEJM, doi.org/kc4).

These mice had all received a faecal sample from the children with kwashiorkor.

The discomfort and weakness that mark this stage of hunger is nothing compared with kwashiorkor, extreme malnutrition that causes a distended belly and swelling of the liver.