You can read the first part of Grahams paper here a. definition and types of nutritional failure Nutritional failure can have three general causes: 1) Deficiency of total caloric and protein intake (clinically manifested as marasmus), 2) Deficiency of protein intake only (clinically manifested as kwashiorkor), or 3) a combination
Wow~it has been several days since the last post. Believe me we have not been sitting around in the Caribbean sun taking a break 🙂 We have had lots of sick kids and adults with us. It takes several hours out of our day just to give meds and make
Graham Sowa is a good friend of Real Hope for Haiti. He is currently in medical school in Cuba and wrote the below paper. We will be sharing it in several different post. It is a good read to help understand the effects of what kwashiorkor and malnutrtion does to the body.
by: Hannah Rogers The Lord blessed me with the opportunity to spend a month volunteering at Real Hope this summer. Never before has He blessed me so richly. Words aren’t sufficient to describe my experiences, yet I know that I am changed. After my parents returned from a short term
DAWENS Dawens came to the clinic because he was sick. On the way here he got worse and was having lots of diar and vomiting. He tested positive for cholera but was also needing IV antibiotic meds due to other illnesses that he had. He stayed with us here in
Previous post about the babies in the tent here, here, here , here In May/June of 2011 we had 6 new babies in the tent. They were all small little ones and 5 of their mothers had died in child birth. The two boys on the right hand side have
