Honger Oedema

Hydropic hungry or oedema caused honger way together or one of simtoma marasmus and kwashiorkor is a phenomenon in Indonesia, the disease can be caused because of chronic protein deficiency in children is often caused by several things, among others, children do not get enough nutritious food, children do not get care and adequate nutrition of children may suffer infections disease.

The cause could be directly due to the natural disasters, public purchasing power, level of education, the environment and the health service.

How to detect people with bulging hungry children in a way that weigh on a regular basis when the comparison with the weight of age under 60% (WHO-NCHS standard) then the child can be said terindikasi hydropic hungry or how to measure with high body and arms Lingkar Top (lila ) when not in accordance with the standards of normal children of less than 14 cm (standard WHO-NCHS) indicated will be going hungry edema.

The side impact of oedema reduct the level of children's intellect, and the dim twilight particularly vulnerable to disease infection diseases. According to the provisions of the WHO when the number has reached 30% expressed high and need further action.

Prevention can be done to provide nutritious food that children in the form of vegetables, fruits, food that contains carbohydrate (such as rice, potatoes, corn), food that contains protein (eggs, fish, meat) etc., and recommended the provision of breast milk for children aged from 0 months to 24 months.