Exploring the potential role of breast-feeding in the recovery of acute malnutrition among infants aged below 6 months
Globally, 4.7 million infants under 6 months (U6M) suffer from severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Recent data suggests that survival of these infants during and after admission is very poor. In a clinical trial, mortality among SAM infants u6m followed up for 1 year after discharge from treatment was...
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| author | Mwangome, M Berkley, J Jones, C Moloney, G |
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| description | Globally, 4.7 million infants under 6 months (U6M) suffer from severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Recent data suggests that survival of these infants during and after admission is very poor. In a clinical trial, mortality among SAM infants u6m followed up for 1 year after discharge from treatment was 31 per 100 child years and weight gain was poor. Re-establishing exclusive breastfeeding is the main thrust of the WHO updated treatment guidelines, however no studies have tested if successful re-establishing exclusive breastfeeding during inpatient treatment would result in maintained exclusive breastfeeding after discharge and result in nutritional recovery (catch-up growth) and survival. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:2aeac414-0106-4297-8fbf-77dca7afe8152022-03-26T12:27:51ZExploring the potential role of breast-feeding in the recovery of acute malnutrition among infants aged below 6 monthsConference itemhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794uuid:2aeac414-0106-4297-8fbf-77dca7afe815Symplectic Elements at OxfordKarger2017Mwangome, MBerkley, JJones, CMoloney, GGlobally, 4.7 million infants under 6 months (U6M) suffer from severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Recent data suggests that survival of these infants during and after admission is very poor. In a clinical trial, mortality among SAM infants u6m followed up for 1 year after discharge from treatment was 31 per 100 child years and weight gain was poor. Re-establishing exclusive breastfeeding is the main thrust of the WHO updated treatment guidelines, however no studies have tested if successful re-establishing exclusive breastfeeding during inpatient treatment would result in maintained exclusive breastfeeding after discharge and result in nutritional recovery (catch-up growth) and survival. |
| spellingShingle | Mwangome, M Berkley, J Jones, C Moloney, G Exploring the potential role of breast-feeding in the recovery of acute malnutrition among infants aged below 6 months |
| title | Exploring the potential role of breast-feeding in the recovery of acute malnutrition among infants aged below 6 months |
| title_full | Exploring the potential role of breast-feeding in the recovery of acute malnutrition among infants aged below 6 months |
| title_fullStr | Exploring the potential role of breast-feeding in the recovery of acute malnutrition among infants aged below 6 months |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the potential role of breast-feeding in the recovery of acute malnutrition among infants aged below 6 months |
| title_short | Exploring the potential role of breast-feeding in the recovery of acute malnutrition among infants aged below 6 months |
| title_sort | exploring the potential role of breast feeding in the recovery of acute malnutrition among infants aged below 6 months |
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