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Complications

Authoring team

Complications include:

  • hypothermia
  • hypoglycaemia
  • drowsiness
  • severe diarrhoea
  • cardiac failure

All these complications may be compounded by superimposed infections.

Reference:

  1. Grover Z, Ee LC. Protein energy malnutrition. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2009 Oct;56(5):1055-68.

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