The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics

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The Treatment and Management of Severe Protein - Energy Malnutrition


     

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This manual is designed to offer simple guidelines for the treatment of severe Protein-Enery Malnutrition (PEM). In spite of all the progress made in this field, children presenting severe forms of marasmus, kwashiorkor, and marasmic kwashiorkor are still dying at a very high rate, even when they are hospitalized This is an unacceptable situation in view of present knowledge.
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This manual is designed to offer simple guidelines for the treatment of severe Protein-Enery Malnutrition (PEM). In spite of all the progress made in this field, children presenting severe forms of marasmus, kwashiorkor, and marasmic kwashiorkor are still dying at a very high rate, even when they are hospitalized This is an unacceptable situation in view of present knowledge.