Serum and urinary creatinine in children with severe protein malnutrition.

I N Central Anuenicam as in Jamaica2 and Africa,3 childre suffering from the severe protein dleficiency of kwashiorkor have been found to have a very low urinary output of creatinine. Standlard et al. found that during recovery urinary creatinine increases proportionally to the increase in muscle mass. However, about half of their patiemits and most of ours showedi an abrupt transient rise in creatimime excretion dunimug the first few days of treatmnent, followed by a variable drop, a