PSYC20008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Kwashiorkor, Measles, Time Point
22 Aug 2018
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Very rapid growth during first 2 years of life. From 2 to puberty, gain ~5-8 cm in height and ~2-4 kgs in weight each year. Soft cartilage in prenatal period, good for birth, gradually ossifies into bone. Ankles, feet, wrists and hands develop more bones as the child matures. Newborns are born with all the muscle fibres they will ever have. Maturation of fibres occurs very gradually in childhood and then accelerates in adolescence. Hormones influence growth. (at the start of life and at puberty). World health organisation growth charts demonstrate growth curve. Growth monitoring helps to detect: feeding difficulties, chronic ill health, social deprivation. Children who are inadequately nourished grow very slowly, if at all. There are two types of nutritional disease related to undernutrition: marasmus: This can happen if the mother is malnourished, does not have a substitute for breast milk or is separated from the child.
