The client is probably experiencing essential fatty acid deficiency.
What is fatty acid deficiency?
A global scaly dermatitis made up of thicker, erythematous, and desquamating plaques is brought on by an essential fatty acid deficit.
Long-term parenteral nutrition without lipid supplementation, extremely low-fat diets, anorexia nervosa, alcohol use disorder, cystic fibrosis, and nephrotic syndrome are a few factors that might contribute to fat malabsorption in the gastrointestinal tract.
Eczema could be an indication of an essential fatty acid shortage in a patient receiving fat-free parenteral nutrition.
Vitamin C deficiency symptoms, such as bleeding gums and the destruction of scar tissue, do not cause eczema.
Eczema is not a symptom of inadequate protein-energy intake.
Phospholipids and sterol are produced by the body, therefore deficiencies don't exist.
