| Synopsis: |
Sets out the principles and practices designed to guide the correct early feeding of young children suffering from acute diarrhoea. Addressed to district programme managers, the book advocates an approach to management that combines feeding practices, backed by the latest scientific knowledge, with efforts to uncover cultural beliefs that may either support or impede successful management. The book opens with a brief review of findings relevant to the dietary management of acute diarrhoea as a means of preventing malnutrition. Readers are introduced to the relationships between diarrhoea and malnutrition, groups at special risk, casual factors, and facts about food digestion and nutrition absorption during diarrhoea that support the benefits of early feeding. The second chapter offers a guide to the selection of foods during and after diarrhoea, the third focuses on the collection of information, presenting a series of 13 questions useful in gathering information about traditional attitudes. |