HLTC23H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nutrition And Pregnancy, Childhood Obesity, Global Health
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22% diarrhoea (gastrointestinal infections, nutritional deficiencies, environmental context sanitation) 3% aids: almost 50% or deaths thought to be related to low birth weight. Protozoan parasitic infection: plasmodium falciparum (most common), vivax, ovale, malariae. Flu-like symptoms: fever, chills, headache, muscle pains, sweats, tiredness, nausea, diarrhea, anemia, vomiting . respiratory distress, convulsions, liver damage (inflammation, infection), coma, death. Wide range, from mild flu-like to severe coma, death. No vaccine, but prophylactic deugs to keep it at bay: quinine, chloroquine, and artemisnin derivatives, preventive measures: bed nets, screens, activity timing, insecticdes, reducing water sources. Syndemic w/ other diseases of poverty: works together w/ malnutrition, etc. If not malnourished before, w/ malaria, will become so and vicious cycle begins. Children can be affected by cerebral malaria: neurological and cognitive impairment. Represents a hidden and poorly defined public heath consequence of malaria. Loss of function in cognitive and motor skills, including coordination, speech/language, vision, and hearing, as well as epilepsy and behavioural impairment.
