For example, two diseases that develop from too little protein are Kwashiorkor and Marasmus, and too diseases that develop because of too much carbohydrates and lipids are Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease. When consuming too much or too little of a macronutrient it can also result in a stunt in growth, especially in children, a insufficient amount of energy, and either weight loss or weight gain. People also tend to gain a low immune system making them more susceptible to
Failure to do so results in their immune system producing antibodies which attacks the lining of their bowel causing them to have abdominal pains, constipation/diarrhoea, bloating, difficulty in gaining weight in childhood or maintaining weight in adulthood and anaemia. Because it affects the way their body can absorb nutrients it can also lead to osteoporosis and increase their risk of bowel cancer. Some foods can be bought that are labelled ‘gluten free’ but tend to be more expensive. • Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is the term used to describe a condition when on inspection of the bowel everything seems normal, but the person suffers with symptoms like abdominal pain, flatulence, bloating and constipation/diarrhoea. The person may want to keep a food diary to help discover which foods make their condition worse and avoid them in the future.
Unit 366 Understand and meet the nutritional requirements of individuals with dementia Outcome 1 1 Describe how cognitive, functional and emotional changes associated with dementia can affect eating, drinking and nutrition. Cognitive(thought processing) problems- affecting people's memory, their ability to learn new things, their understanding and problem solving ability. Dementia is brought about by a section of the brain being effected by the cells dying. This will effect the memory and all that we have learnt from birth, how to talk, eat and function in a normal way becomes almost impossible. This means for the individual who has dementia, that the means and importance of food can be forgotten or that they just forget that they are hungry, or forget to eat what has been prepared.
It can make people eat not healthy food or under eat. It can damage their health and self-esteem. It is anorexia nervosa when people under eat. In this situation people try to keep their weight as low as possible and want to be as skin as possible. People with this disorder usually eat low calorie diet, and make starving themselves.
To help with the symptoms of dementia the client was taking Donepezil which is an anti- Alzheimer’s medication. Emaciation A person suffering from emaciation has an extremely low body weight. This symptom of a variety of diseases or conditions like starvation is fairly easy to recognize. The human or animal looks severely underweight, with many bones sticking out prominently. Depending on its cause, emaciation may have other features, and while from the outside these symptoms look severe, on the inside of the body it is more dangerous, as most of the body’s systems aren't provided with the nutrition required to function well or normally.
The risk for being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes is higher for people who are older, obese, have family history of the disease and who do not exercise. In Type 2 diabetes the symptoms appear slower than do in Type 1 diabetes. Some of the symptoms are the same, but the symptoms for Type 2 are: urinating often, losing weight unexpectedly, feeling tired and hungry, sores that will not heal blurry eyesight and being thirsty. Type-2 diabetes can be managed with eating healthy, exercising, and checking your blood sugar. Some people may also have to take medications.
Some health problems are cardiovascular disease which is disease of the hearth, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis’s, diabetes type 2 and certain types of cancer are caused by obesity. Obesity has been found to cut your life expectancy by 6 to 7 years. There are many way to prevent obesity like regular physical exercise and a proper diet. Limiting your fat and carbohydrate in take and eating lots of fruit and vegetables daily, is
Poor nutrition can in turn worsen the symptoms of dementia for individuals. A report states that people with dementia who are undernourished may end up worsening their condition. but poor nutrition can also cause individuals with dementia to need specialist help more often as well eg requiring antibiotics. Malnutrition also affects the immune system making it difficult to fight
Hunger, malnutrition and under nutrition are all terms used to describe aspects of this problem. There is an important difference between 'under nutrition' and 'malnutrition'. Under nutrition is quantitative and means that people do not get enough to eat whereas malnutrition is qualitative and means that a person’s diet is lacking the necessary amounts of certain elements that are essential to
Nutrition | Children need food of appropriate quantity and quality for optimal growth and development. If their nutritional intake is inadequate they will fail to gain weight or lose it and will subsequently fail to grow in height. Prolonged or severe nutritional deficiency will result in malnutrition. | The nutritional vulnerability of infants and children | | Infants and children are more vulnerable to poor nutrition than are adults. There are a number of reasons for this.