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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Madkour, Ahmed A.
• Massoud, Mohamed N. Z.
• El Azzouni, Omar E. F.
• Amer, Maysa A.
• Ragab, Mohamed A. F.
• El Sawy, Ehab H. A.

Titel

Nutritional outcome of appropriate feeding during and after acute diarrhoea in children

Ist Teil von

• Eastern Mediterranean health journal, 2021-08, Vol.1 (2), p.162-175

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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