You are reading a case study from a researcher at World University. The researcher has traveled to the largest city in India and is reporting on an illness present in a 15-month-old boy. The researcher described the child as extremely thin and bony, with wrinkled skin and enlarged fatty liver. For the past year, this child has subsisted almost entirely on diluted cereal drink. Your first thought is that all of these observations are characteristic of marasmus except for thea. wrinkled skin. b. food intake pattern. c. enlarged fatty liver. d. extremely thin, bony appearance.

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Elena Bernard

15 September, 08:42

You are reading a case study from a researcher at World University. The researcher has traveled to the largest city in India and is reporting on an illness present in a 15-month-old boy. The researcher described the child as extremely thin and bony, with wrinkled skin and enlarged fatty liver. For the past year, this child has subsisted almost entirely on diluted cereal drink. Your first thought is that all of these observations are characteristic of marasmus except for thea. wrinkled skin. b. food intake pattern. c. enlarged fatty liver. d. extremely thin, bony appearance.

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Kate Joyce · Answer 1

c. enlarged fatty liver

Explanation:

Marasmus is a term given when a child suffers from severe undernourishment. In this condition, the weight of the child or the infant is significantly low or very low corresponding their age.

Marasmus in a child is caused by scarcity of food supply and poverty, and deficiency in nutrients.

Some of the symptoms of Marasmus are food intake pattern, bony appearance, thin and lean health, malnourishment.

Thus the answer is

c. enlarged fatty liver