Inanition
Under inanition or emaciation is meant a reduction in body weight to below 80% of normal weight . Causes can include:
- Malnutrition , malnutrition , malnutrition , marasmus
- Food intake disorders
- Disorders of food absorption and / or utilization
- increased nutritional requirements in severe illnesses
- long-term fasting
- mental disorders (e.g. anorexia nervosa )
- a uremia
During inanition, only the fat tissue of the storage fat deposits and the skeletal muscles are broken down ( catabolic metabolism ), but the building fat is still retained. The changes are still reversible . Without eliminating the causes, however, inanition soon leads to irreversible changes ( cachexia ).
See also
literature
- Wilfried Kraft: Geriatrics in dogs and cats . Thieme, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-8304-4099-4 , p. 62-63 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franz Volhard : The bilateral hematogenous kidney diseases . In: Gustav von Bergmann , Rudolf Staehelin (ed.): Handbook of Internal Medicine , 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1931, Volume 6, p. 775.