Kwashiorkor

At the moment I am studying histology and I was watching a clip about Plasma when they started talking about the albumin. People who have liver damage or are highly malnourished can't manufacture albumin as well as they should so then they are going to have a hard time retaining the water in the bloodstream/getting it back in to the bloodstream. The water is going to stay in the tissue instead, especially in the abdomen. 
Kwashiorkor is a condition where this has happened. I have always wondered why really malnourished people have bloated/large stomachs and this is why. The water that has been dumped out of the blood and gathered in the abdomen instead.