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Can you please explain why the starving kids in africa have such bloated stomachs?
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Fluid shifting: As malnutrition progresses, there is less protein circulating in the blood to hold on to body water and it seeps into the spaces around all the organs. This bloating is not gas or fat, it's thin body serum.As malnutrition is reversed, the dietary protein enters the bloodstream and begins to hold o to more fluid.
Answered 10/4/2016
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