title: Nutritional rehabilitation of children < 6 mo with severe acute malnutrition.
abstract: The authors studied the outcome of 108 infants <  6 mo with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) admitted in the Nutritional Rehabilitation Centres (NRC) at a teaching hospital. The most common symptom that the children presented with, was acute diarrhoea (35.2 %) followed by failure to gain weight (26.9 %). Seventy five (69.4 %) infants were cured after nutritional rehabilitation and 29 (26.8 %) were non responders. Fifty two (48 %) infants showed good weight gain after proper counseling or supplementary suckling technique alone.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, M. L. N. Medical College, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, 211001, India.
authors.forename: Dharmendra K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Ruchi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rai
authors.forename: Prakash Chandra
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Mishra
authors.forename: Manisha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maurya
authors.forename: Anubha
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Srivastava
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007228:Infant Nutrition Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D015430:Weight Gain