ABSTRACT
Ultrasonographic gastric emptying time [GET] using both liquid and semisolid meals was measured on 27 malnourished children [10 marasmic infants, 10 marasmic Kwashiorkor infants and 7 Kwashiorkor infants] and 15 healthy infants; all of them aged 7-24 months. The statistical analysis of the results showed that there was a highly significant delay of the half gastric emptying time of the marasmic and marasmic Kwashiorkor group to both the liquid and the semisolid meals as compared with the control group and the delay of half gastric emptying time of semisolid meals was much more than that of the liquid meal. On comparing the KWO group with the control group, there was no statistically significant delay of half gastric emptying time of the liquid and semisolid meals