Getting support to children with malnutrition in Kenya Treatment with antibiotics such as amoxicillin or cefdinir improves the response and survival rate of severely malnourished children to an outpatient treatment plan which provided therapeutic food. This confirms the recommendation, "In addition to the provision of RUTF ready-to-use therapeutic food, children need to receive a short course of basic oral medication to treat infections." contained in "Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition, A Joint Statement by the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition and the United Nations Children’s Fund."
Undernutrition in children
Pain in babies
Low milk supply
Neonatal hypocalcemia
Trauma in children
Infant mental health
Underweight
Chest pain in children