Why do malnourished children have so much filler?
From time to time, we are bombarded with television images undernourished children, fully cachectic. From little girl I asked the same question ... Why, if they are hungry, have a swollen stomach? A school teacher gave me the answer: because as they have no food, they swallow air (like many of those who gave me my persistent questions ... I was not very successful)
most abundant protein in the blood have the albumin. Among other functions, such as transport, is responsible for maintaining the oncotic pressure in the blood, which roughly converts it into the flour liquid bechamel league that is our blood (yes, I crave croquettes). Being more technical, albumin makes the liquid part of blood is kept within the vessels.
When albumin levels are low, for example, because there is a failure of liver function that reduces its production or because the kidney does not work as well as they should and let it remove more than necessary, there is a extravasation of fluid into the abdominal cavity, causing ascites (which has more potential causes, it must be said) can accumulate to many liters of fluid, and as you can imagine, is uncomfortable and can become difficult to breathe, so it is need to be removed.
And here are the children on the subject ... if your diet is not adequate, as it is not that of these children do not have the necessary nutrients for your body to produce molecules essential, not only for body growth, if not to work in conditions. And one of these many molecules is albumin.
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