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Kwashiorkor
12 min read
Also known as: protein-energy malnutrition · protein deficiency · hunger belly · malnutrition · edema from protein deficiency · undernutrition · PEM
Your Body Is Speaking
The belly swells forward, even though there is no food inside it. The legs become thin, the face puffy. The hair loses its colour, turns reddish, dull, brittle. The skin stretches and cracks, strength fades. A child who was laughing not long ago now sits still, absent, withdrawn into itself — as if something essential had been taken away, and it does not know how to ask for it back.
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