Pediatric intestinal malabsorption syndrome

Intestinal malabsorption syndrome (malabsorption syndrome) refers to the digestive and / or absorptive function of the small intestine, which prevents one or more nutrients in the intestinal lumen from being smoothly transported into the body and is excreted from the feces, causing the child to suffer from nutritional deficiency . Often a variety of nutritional components have varying degrees of malabsorption. Malnutrition of a certain nutritional component often has its own specific clinical manifestations.

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