Children who suffer from malnutrition are weak in both physical and mental ways. If children are victims of malnutrition since childhood, then this deficiency remains with them throughout life. In this way, children can lag behind in life, careers in every way.
Along with the physical development of the children of malnourished children, there is also a great effect on monthly development and there is also a lack of concentration in these children. Most children in India get vitamin A and iodine deficiency. Children who lack Vitamin A are also more afflicted, as well as they have more chances of having diarrhea and other infections. Due to the lack of iodine, there is a great effect on the mental development of children.
Children who are victims of malnutrition include the following symptoms:
- Always feeling tired
- Blinking eyes
- Weakening of disease resistant capacity
- Dry skin and rustic hair
- Gum swelling
- Hemorrhage bleeding
- Tooth decay
- Low ratio of weight and height
- Can not concentrate
- Lack of development
- Pain in muscle muscles
- Flatulence
- Irritability in behavior
- Unable to learn
- To cry
If malnutrition can reach a critical condition, then there are some signs of this kind:
- Weak bones and joints pain
- Ossification of bones
- Dermatosclerosis
- Muscle weakness
- Nail breaks
- Hair loss or hair color change
- Not feeling hungry
- Weeping without children
- To be very thin and weak in body
- Flatulence