Serial Electrophoretic Studies on the Serum Proteins of Malnourished Jamaican Infants During Treatment

The Relation of Oedema to Serum Protein and Pseudocholinesterase Levels in the Malnourished Infant

“…The findings of Kulkarni et al (1960) in India were very similar, but ao2 globulin was less affected. Hellyer and Went (1960) in a mixed series of 14 malnourished Jamaican infants found that the greatest rise of globulin during recovery was in the ( fraction. Total serum globulin in their series increased in recovery by 40 %, compared to a rise of 100% in albumin.…”

“…There are now detailed reports of the serum protein pattern in malnourished infants from many parts of the world, but few of them deal specifically with this relation (Anderson and Altmann, 1951;Edozien, 1960;Hellyer and Went, 1960;MacDonald, 1960;Potgieter, Smythe and Kench, 1960;Kulkarni, Satoskar and Chitre, 1960). It is indeed difficult to do so, for clinical oedema is not readily quantitated, and an excess of total body water is common to all types of infantile malnutrition with or without detectable oedema (Schnieden, Hendrickse and Haigh, 1958;Smith, 1960).…”