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Title:Management of malnourished children with acute diarrhoea and sugar intolerance
Authors:Beau, J.P.
Fontaine, O.
Garenne, M.ISNI
Year:1990
Periodical:Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
Volume:36
Issue:2
Pages:86-89
Language:English
Geographic term:Senegal
Subjects:infants
malnutrition
children
diarrhoea
External link:http://tropej.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/36/2/86
Abstract:A protocol of nutritional rehabilitation using fermented milk, vegetable oil and caster sugar was tested on 54 children, aged 6-36 months, admitted to the Roi Baudouin Hospital in Pikine-Guedjawaye, near Dakar, Senegal, with acute diarrhoea and malnutrition. At the time of admission, 39 percent of children were dehydrated and 26 percent had sugar intolerance. In the course of treatment three went home against medical advice and one died from acute pneumonia with respiratory heart failure. Among the cases of marasmus there were no differences in mean weight gain between children with sugar intolerance and the others, despite a longer duration of diarrhoea in the first group. Furthermore, the experimental protocol has never been compromised because of worsening diarrhoea or weight loss. The results indicate that a formula based on fermented milk together with oral rehydration can be used to treat malnourished children with acute diarrhoea and sugar intolerance. Ref.
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