Effectiveness of zinc supplementation plus oral rehydration salts for diarrhoea in infants aged less than 6 months in Haryana state, India

OBJECTIVE: To determine if educating caregivers in providing zinc supplements to infants < 6 months old with acute diarrhoea is effective in treating diarrhoea and preventing acute lower respiratory infections (ALRIs), and whether it leads to a decrease in the use of oral rehydration salts (ORS)....

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Sarmila Mazumder, Sunita Taneja, Nita Bhandari, Brinda Dube, RC Agarwal, Dilip Mahalanabis, Olivier Fontaine, Robert E Black
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:English
منشور في: The World Health Organization 2010-10-01
سلاسل:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862010001000012&lng=en&tlng=en