Reducing Oil Separation in Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food

Ready-to-use therapeutic food for treatment of marasmus.

Ready-to-use therapeutic foods for malnutrition.

Médecins Sans Frontières has just released its ninth annual list, for 2006, of the top ten under-reported humanitarian stories. Eight of the ten arose from confl ict situations, but two are of more direct clinical relevance: malnutrition and tuberculosis. The three-part Lancet series on child development in developing countries, which ends today, has much to say about malnutrition, and its sist...

Ready to Use Therapeutic Food(RUTF) in the management of severe acute malnutrition in India.

Home-based management has many advantages as the children have reduced exposure to hospitalacquired infections and receive continuity of care after discharge. It also benefits by increasing the time available to mothers to spend with family and reduces the risk of possible neglect of siblings. Also, mothers are able to look after other family responsibilities simultaneously(1,2). An essential c...

The Life Course Implications of Ready to Use Therapeutic Food for Children in Low-Income Countries

The development of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) for the treatment of uncomplicated cases of severe acute malnutrition in young children from 6 months to 5 years old has greatly improved survival through the ability to treat large numbers of malnourished children in the community setting rather than at health facilities during emergencies. This success has led to a surge in demand for RU...

Supplemental feeding with ready-to-use therapeutic food in Malawian children at risk of malnutrition.

The study was a controlled, comparative clinical effectiveness trial of two supplementary feeding regimens in children at risk of malnutrition from seven centres in rural Malawi. Being at risk of malnutrition was defined as weight-for-height <85%, but >80% of the international standard. A stepped-wedge design with systematic allocation was used for assigning children to receive either ready-to-...