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(2) The patients have emaciation (with the body weight being 15% or more below the normal value), lustreless complexion, thin-dried and withered hair, or extreme emaciation in severe cases.
(3) The complications include listlessness, susceptibility to loss of temper, dysphoria, irascibility, or liability to rubbing eyebrows and cleaning eyes, or finger-sucking habit, odontoprisis, etc.
(4) The patients have the history of improper feeding, improper nursing after recovery, and chronic emaciation.
(5) For the patients with anemia, hemoglobin count and red cell count are reduced. Edema occurs on lower limbs. For the patients with nutritional edema, serum total protein is often below 45 g/L and serum albumin below 20 g/L.
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