小兒營養不良

Childhood Undernutrition

鄭集誠(Ji-Cheng Zheng)

《台灣中醫臨床醫學雜誌》 11卷1期 (2005/03) Pp. 27-31

https://doi.org/10.6968/TJCCM.200503.0027

摘要

幼兒營養不良是屬於中醫學的“疳證”，營養不良起因是由於攝入不足，或由於食物不能充分吸收利用，以致不能維持代謝，迫使機體消耗自身的組織，出現體重不增或減輕，生長發育停滯，脂肪逐漸消失，肌肉萎縮，同時也可造成全身各系統功能紊亂，免疫力低下的一種疾病。其臨床特徵爲形體消瘦，飲食不調，甚則皮膚乾燥鬆弛，精神煩躁或萎靡不振，動作、智能發良遲緩。

關鍵字

疳證 ； 營養不良 ； 生長發育遲滯 ； 形體消瘦 ； 精神煩燥 ； 智能發育遲緩

並列摘要

Childhood undernutrition belongs to what Chinese medicine calls gan pattern. Undernutrition is due to insufficient intake of food or insufficient absorption of nutrients resulting in inability to maintain proper metabolism, forcing the body to consume its own tissue. Consequently there is no increase in body weight or the body loses weight, growth and development cease, fat deposits gradually diminish and muscles atrophy. This can also lead to complete functional breakdown of the body's systems and lowered immunity.
Clinical characteristics include emaciation, irregular intake of food and, if extreme, dry, slack skin, vexation, agitation, listlessness and retarded mental and motor development.

並列關鍵字

gan pattern ； undernutrition ； retarded growth and development ； emaciation ； vexation and agitation ； retarded mental development