Section outline

  • Chapter objectives:

    • To learn about various types of nutritional disease so that students can use the knowledge in their academic and professional career also aware of these type disease.


    Lecture Outcome:

    • Learn about the various types of nutritional disease.
    • Causes, sign-symptoms, pathogenesis, treatment of Marasmus, kwashiorkor
    • Define vitamin 
    • Deficiency symptoms, source of vitamin
    • Various mineral deficiency disease

    Lecture Content:

    • Marasmus (Definition, causes, sign-symptoms, pathophysiology, treatment and prevention)
    • Kwashiorkor ( Definition, causes, sign-symptoms, pathophysiology, treatment and prevention)
    • Minerals  (Fe, Cu, Zn, Mg, Ca, I2 etc)
    • Vitamins  (fat soluble and water soluble)