All are true regarding Kwashiorkar except –
Correct Answer: Megaloblastic anemia not responding to folic acid
Description: Megaloblastic anemia due to folic acid deficiency responds well to folic acid supplementation.
Associated nutritional deficiencies in PEM
Iron deficiency → Anemia (Microcytic hypochromic)
Folate & Vit B12 deficiency → Anemia (megaloblastic).
Vit A deficiency → Xeropthalmia (Night blindness, conjuctival xerosis, 'Bitot's spot, corneal xerosis, keratomalacia).
Vit B2 deficiency → Ariboflavinosis.
Vit C deficiency → Scurvy
Vit D deficiency → Skeletal changes of rickets may not be clinically overt as no growth is occurring during malnutrition (Rickets is a disease of growing skeleton). Rickets becomes evident during Dietary therapy, when skeleton starts growing again → Paradoxical rickets.
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