Effect of Short-Term Supplementation with Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food or Micronutrients for Children after Illness for Prevention of Malnutrition: A Randomised Controlled Trial in Nigeria

Globally, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treats more than 300,000 severely malnourished children annually. Malnutrition is not only caused by lack of food and poor infant and child feeding practices but also by illnesses. Breaking the vicious cycle of illness and malnutrition by providing ill childr...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PLoS medicine 2016-02, Vol.13 (2), p.e1001952-e1001952
Hauptverfasser:	van der Kam, Saskia, Salse-Ubach, Nuria, Roll, Stephanie, Swarthout, Todd, Gayton-Toyoshima, Sayaka, Jiya, Nma Mohammed, Matsumoto, Akiko, Shanks, Leslie
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biology and Life Sciences Child, Preschool Children Children & youth Chronic Disease Compliance Confidence intervals Dietary Supplements Diseases Female Follow-Up Studies Food Food, Fortified Health aspects Humans Illnesses Immune system Incidence Infant Infections Integrated approach Male Malnutrition Malnutrition - epidemiology Malnutrition - etiology Malnutrition - prevention & control Medical research Medicine and Health Sciences Micronutrients - administration & dosage Morbidity Mortality Nigeria - epidemiology People and Places Population Prevention Researchers Retrospective Studies Studies Time Factors Treatment Outcome
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Zusammenfassung:	Globally, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treats more than 300,000 severely malnourished children annually. Malnutrition is not only caused by lack of food and poor infant and child feeding practices but also by illnesses. Breaking the vicious cycle of illness and malnutrition by providing ill children with nutritional supplementation is a potentially powerful strategy for preventing malnutrition that has not been adequately investigated. Therefore, MSF investigated whether incidence of malnutrition among ill children
ISSN:	1549-1676 1549-1277 1549-1676
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pmed.1001952