Electrophoretic studies on serum proteins of malnourished infants (abstract only)

The changes in serum proteins of fourteen malnourished Jamaican children admitted to the M.R.C. Ward have been studied. The findings are compared with figures obtained from a small group of normal adult Europeans and Jamaicans; no racial differences could be detected. In the Jamaican children the albumin is low on admission and increases rapidly, within twenty to thirty days, to levels approaching normal. Little change occurs in the globulins apart from an increase in the beta fraction. The gamma globulins are not significantly higher than normal on admission and show little change on treatment (AU)