A Ready-To-Use Therapeutic Food Containing 10% Milk Is Less Effective Than One with 25% Milk in the Treatment of Severely Malnourished Children

Comparison of the efficacy of a solid ready-to-use food and a liquid, milk-based diet for the rehabilitation of severely malnourished children: a randomized trial1–3

Background: The World Health Organization recommends a liquid, milk-based diet (F100) during the rehabilitation phase of the treatment of severe malnutrition. A dry, solid, ready-touse food (RTUF) that can be eaten without adding water has been proposed to eliminate the risk of bacterial contamination from added water. The efficacies of RTUF and F100 have not been compared. Objective: The objec...

Camel Milk Is a Safer Choice than Goat Milk for Feeding Children with Cow Milk Allergy

Background. Various sources of mammalian milk have been tried in CMA. Objectives. To determine whether camel milk is safer than goat milk in CMA. Methods. Prospective study conducted at Hamad Medical Corporation between April 2007 and April 2010, on children with CMA. Each child had medical examination, CBC, total IgE, cow milk-specific IgE and SPT. CMA children were tested against fresh camel ...

Survey method of health care providing to children less than one year in health ‎departments

Introduction: Health care providing to children with optimal quality is part of maternal and ‎child health program that its quality performance causes reduced mortality, complication and ‎health maintenance. Thus evaluating these care and promotion of health care providers, ‎performance and its quality certainly will have effective role in maternal child well – being‏.&rlm...

Cost-effective treatment for severely malnourished children: what is the best approach?

UNLABELLED In urban Bangladesh, 437 children with severe malnutrition aged 12-60 months were sequentially allocated to treat either as i) inpatients, ii) day care, or iii) domiciliary care after one week of day care. Average institutional cost (US$) to achieve 80% weight-for-height were respectively $156, $59 and $29/child. As a proportion of the overall costs, staff salaries were the largest c...

Ready-to-use therapeutic food for treatment of marasmus.