Inflammation and gut problems can torment survivors. New treatments may repair some damage By Denise Potvin, a nurse currently working in Rafah, a city in the south of Gaza, has been seeing something new recently: Malnutrition among young children. Before the current Israel-Hamas war, “this was not something that would have [been] treated,” Potvin says.
“Now we are seeing cases.” As of May 18, , including at least 28 children, have died of malnutrition. In southern Gaza, under 5 are malnourished, according to the World Health Organization.
In northern Gaza, the fraction is greater — and up to 4 percent are severely malnourished, an earlier agency report estimated. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification partnership warned in a report in March that in the northern part of Gaza, and the rest of Gaza is also at risk. The children of Gaza are not alone.
Kids in Afghanistan, Sudan, Nigeria, Yemen, Haiti, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and other countries are experiencing malnutrition as a result of conflict, poverty, natural disasters and ( : 1/8/20). Those abrupt disruptions can lead to acute malnutrition and wasting, and — if the situation becomes prolonged — chronic malnutrition, stunting and sometimes death. Last year, an estimated were acutely malnourished, with 9.
8 million of them suffering severe malnutrition, according to the Food Security Information Network. The WHO estimates that in 2022 about 149 million children had stunting (they�.
