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

• Principais autores: Sarmila Mazumder (Autor), Sunita Taneja (Autor), Nita Bhandari (Autor), Brinda Dube (Autor), RC Agarwal (Autor), Dilip Mahalanabis (Autor), Olivier Fontaine (Autor), Robert E Black (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: The World Health Organization, 2010-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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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)....