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Acute gastroenteritis: effect on nutritional status
R Cunningham1, C M Parry, A D Harries
1Regional Infectious Disease Unit, Fazakerley Hospital, Liverpool.
The British Journal of Clinical Practice
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Anthropometric measurements were performed on admission and at four weeks post discharge on 25 adults referred to hospital with acute gastroenteritis. There was a significant change in weight (P < 0.001) and mid-arm circumference (P < 0.05), but no change in skinfold thickness, arm muscle area or arm fat area. The results suggest that weight change during acute gastroenteritis is more a consequence of dehydration than of malnutrition.