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

• Main Authors: Sarmila Mazumder (Author), Sunita Taneja (Author), Nita Bhandari (Author), Brinda Dube (Author), RC Agarwal (Author), Dilip Mahalanabis (Author), Olivier Fontaine (Author), Robert E Black (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2010-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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)....