2.2. Study Participants
disability, oedema, malnutrition
MILK ALLERGIES, MEDICAL COMPLICATION, OEDEMA, MALNUTRITION
This study was conducted at two public health facilities in Walukuba division and Buwenge town council in Jinja district. The district is located about 75 km east of the capital city Kampala forming part of the ten districts in the Busoga sub-region in East-Central Uganda.Study participants were identified from the surrounding villages and those found with height-for-age z-score (HAZ) < −2 and weight-for-height z-score (WHZ) > −3 were invited to the study clinic for eligibility screening. At the study clinic, children were enrolled if they met the following inclusion criteria: lived in the catchment area, caregiver willing to return for follow-up visits, and agreed to phone-follow-up plus home visits. Children who had severe acute malnutrition (WHZ < −3 or bilateral pitting oedema), medical complications that necessitated hospitalization, history of peanut or milk allergies, obvious disability impeding ability to eat or measure their length/height were excluded from the study. Children who were participating in another study, whose family planned to move away from the catchment area in the next six months, or had another child from the same household already included were excluded as well.