PBL MAASTRICHT Número # PBL Maastri cht CHEMIS TRY ENGLIS H BIOLOG Every year, 6 million children around the world die of starvation or undernutrition and an estimated 148 million children under 5 years old suffer from severe malnutrition. The child you can...
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PBL MAASTRICHT Número # PBL Maastri cht CHEMIS TRY ENGLIS H BIOLOG Every year, 6 million children around the world die of starvation or undernutrition and an estimated 148 million children under 5 years old suffer from severe malnutrition. The child you can see in the photo is from Niger, one of the African countries most affected by malnutrition. Among other symptoms, this Nigerien boy shows rickets and oedema of malnutrition or protein deficiency, whose main symptom is the accumulation of water in the abdomen due to the lack of proteins intake. His urine has got a pH under 5, known as acidosis. What are the biochemical causes of these symptoms? The treatment administered is the following: 1. Bicarbonate sodium. 2. Albumin. Why is this treatment effective? MALNUTRITION Is there new vocabulary? 1 HEMOGRAM ERYTRHOCYTE 2mill per mm3 (3,8-5,5) HEMOGLOBIN 17g/cm(11.5-16.5) BIOCHEMISTRY UREA 3mg/cc(19-36) GLUCOSE 30mg/cc(60-110) ALBÚMIN 2 mg/cc(4—5) TRIGLICERYDE S 30 mg/cc(74-150)
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