Malnutrition

Long time ago while I was still in primary school, I couldn't understand why young children could appear old on the face and have pot bellies (referred to as “young bosses”) by the locals without forgetting their protruding ribs. There is another one also which was really in our immediate neighbor. This was a boy child who had fluid accumulation all over his body and had his face appearing like the face of the moon. For the latter, I tried to gamble about the food insecurity because the mother had another pregnancy before the current young child was even six months hence, had already been stopped from breastfeeding and his food mostly was composed of gruel made from corn meal. These questions kept on disturbing me which made me curious to identify why such young children looked like that.