1. Nutritional outcome of appropriate feeding during and after acute diarrhoea in children
- Author
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Ahmed A. Madkour, Mohamed N. Z. Massoud, Omar E. F. El Azzouni, Maysa A. Amer, Mohamed A. F. Ragab, and Ehab H. A. El Sawy
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education.field_of_study ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,digestive, oral, and skin physiology ,Population ,General Medicine ,Group A ,Group B ,Diarrhea ,Clinical research ,medicine ,Forty Nine ,medicine.symptom ,education ,business ,Acute diarrhoea - Abstract
A sample of 120 children with acute diarrhoea was divided into two equal study groups. There was no difference between groups in pre-intervention and post-intervention findings during the acute phase of diarrhoea. Upon discharge, Group A patients were supplied weekly with sufficient milk formula and cereal together with adequate nutritional advice while Group B patients were supplied with food or nutritional advice only if requested by the mothers. Forty nine patients from each group were followed each week for four weeks. Group B infants showed a higher incidence of recurrent diarrhoeal attacks and a significantly longer duration of recurrent diarrhoea than Group A infants. Moreover, Group A infants scored a significantly higher weight increment than Group B ones after four weeks of follow up
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- 2021