The cause of malnutrition in children

 Due to an error in foster: a child's diet deficient in both quantity and quality of water as artificial feeding sugar porridge, early complementary feeding fish flour, salt, seasoning. Some children after weaning, the diet mainly of rice, small animal foods, oils, fats, vitamins and minerals.

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Due to contamination: The consequences of infectious diseases such as measles, diarrhea, pneumonia, tuberculosis, parasites ... make children eat less growth retardation.

The underlying causes also need to mention the health services, the environment, food security for households incomplete.

Clinical practice and epidemiology suggests infants 6-18 months of age starting complementary feeding and breastfeeding declining; infants born weighing less than 1,500 g with; not being breastfed infants in the first year; Children often suffer from infectious diseases such as diarrhea, respiratory tract infections;children with birth defects such as cleft lip and palate, congenital heart, neurological sequelae; large families, the economy is tight ... at risk of malnutrition.

The cause of malnutrition in the elderly

Immoderate eating, snack, roughly, eat less. Most are eaten alone, single cause for eating boredom or lack of attention to quality in every meal so can cause malnutrition in the elderly. The most important thing leading to malnutrition in the elderly is poor diet quality, even inadequate meals, no breakfast, dinner hungry.Some malnourished economic deprivation or economic ability but no worry for daily meals, the work goes on leading to malnutrition.

Also, there are some elderly malnutrition chronic illnesses such as poor tooth system (loose teeth or have fallen much) causes difficulty in chewing food.Salivary gland fibrosis reduces the salivary secretions (saliva has some enzymes needed for employment puree food). Due to the physiological function of the impaired elderly people, especially the senses, especially taste and smell, so do not stimulate the appetite in the elderly.

Malnutrition among the elderly may also be found in some cases prone to food allergies, so the elderly 'afraid to eat' worrying after ingestion will be gastrointestinal problems such as nausea, vomiting or diarrhea, abdominal pain. A number of gastrointestinal diseases (especially diseases of the stomach). Mental illnesses such as chronic depression, dementia is a huge influence to digest and so very easily lead to malnutrition. Alcoholism is also a significant cause, alcoholics are anorexia, do not even want to eat any foods other than alcohol. In some cases the elderly are malnourished due to abstinence overkill.