title: Experience with a mixture of wheat-noodles and casein in the initial dietary therapy of infants and young children with protein-energy malnutrition or acute diarrhea.
abstract: The usefulness of a mixture of wheat noodles and a casein-based formula in the early management of 11 children with second or third degree malnutrition and of ten better nourished children with acute diarrhea was studied. Response of the malnourished children, gauged by clinical course and balance studies, paralleled that previously documented using only casein-based formula diets. Children with acute diarrhea recovered well but had expectedly higher fecal energy losses than previously seen in healthy children consuming the same diet. Diets containing substantial amounts of wheat noodles, a low cost widely available staple, can be appropriately used in the refeeding of chronic malnutrition and acute infectious enteritis.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002364:Caseins; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000178:diet therapy*; D003968:Diarrhea, Infantile / Q000178:diet therapy; D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates / Q000378:metabolism; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000378:metabolism; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D005243:Feces / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food / Q000592:standards*; D008297:Male; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000378:metabolism; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000178:diet therapy*; D014908:Triticum
chemical_list: D002364:Caseins; D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates; D004041:Dietary Fats; D009584:Nitrogen