When breast feeding is replaced by less nutritive food low in proteins and calories, the infants below the age of one year are likely to suffer from

Options

A. marasmus
B. rickets
C. kwashiorkor
D. pellagra

Answer

C

Explanation

Prolonged starvation causes marasmum diseases due to a generalised wasting of body, because of both energy and protein deficiency. The body becomes lean and weak, eyes depressed and skin wrinkled.
Kwashiorker is a diseases caused by continued deficiency of proteins in diet although energy intake may be adequate.
Rickets (in children) occurs due to