NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF CHILDREN SUFFERING ALLERGIC ENTEROPATHY
Abstract
The article presents data on the nutritional status of 39 children aged 3 to 14 years (average age 6.71±2.18 and 95% CI 4.53-8.89) diagnosed with allergic enteropathy. In this group of patients, growth retardation was observed in 54% of cases and underweight in 63%. Bioimpedance measurement made it possible to estimate active cell mass, fat - free mass, fat mass and total water. In combination with laboratory indicators (total protein, albumin, hemoglobin, urea, erythrocytes, leukocytes, lymphocytes, vitamin D), bioimpedance measurement indicates a predisposition to the development of protein - energy undernutrition, nutritional status disorders, including an excess of total water and reduced total protein, which may indicate a latent kwashiorkor and be a predictor of protein - losing enteropathy.
