Innovative optimization of ready to use food for treatment of acute malnutrition

Locally made ready to use therapeutic food for treatment of malnutrition a randomized controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a locally made ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) in decreasing mild to moderate malnutrition. DESIGN A randomized open label, controlled trial. SETTING Pre-schools run by the Department of Community Health in Kaniyambadi administrative block, Vellore, India; duration of follow-up 3 months from the date of recruitment. PARTICIPANTS Pupils aged ...

Locally-prepared ready-to-use therapeutic food for children with severe acute malnutrition: a controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of locally-prepared ready-to-use therapeutic food (LRUTF) and locally-prepared F100 diet in promoting weight-gain in children with severe acute malnutrition during rehabilitation phase in hospital. STUDY DESIGN Non-randomized Controlled trial. SETTING Pediatric ward of tertiary care public hospital in Central India. STUDY PERIOD 1 October, 2009 to 30th Ma...

Ready to Use Therapeutic Food(RUTF) in the management of severe acute malnutrition in India.

Home-based management has many advantages as the children have reduced exposure to hospitalacquired infections and receive continuity of care after discharge. It also benefits by increasing the time available to mothers to spend with family and reduces the risk of possible neglect of siblings. Also, mothers are able to look after other family responsibilities simultaneously(1,2). An essential c...

Ready-to-use therapeutic foods for malnutrition.

Médecins Sans Frontières has just released its ninth annual list, for 2006, of the top ten under-reported humanitarian stories. Eight of the ten arose from confl ict situations, but two are of more direct clinical relevance: malnutrition and tuberculosis. The three-part Lancet series on child development in developing countries, which ends today, has much to say about malnutrition, and its sist...

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