Effectiveness of Nutritional Supplementation in Preventing Malnutrition in Children With Infection in Karamoja, Uganda (MSF-nutcon03)

Medecins Sans Frontieres, Spain

Status

Completed

Conditions

Child Malnutrition

Infant Morbidity

Treatments

Dietary Supplement: Dietary Supplement: Nutrition supplement with RUTF or MNP

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01497236

MSF-nutcon03

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether 14 days nutritional supplementation with Ready to use therapeutic Food (RUTF) or micronutrients alone to children having an infection will prevent malnutrition and reduce the frequency of morbidity.

Full description

similar to MSF-nutcon 03 : NCT01154803

Enrollment

2,202 patients

Sex

All

Ages

6 to 59 months old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

6 to 59 months of age
Not malnourished
Diagnosis of malaria and/or diarrhoea and/or LRTI
Intending to remain in area for the duration of the 6 month follow-up
Living within approximately 60 minutes walking distance from the clinic
Informed consent from a guardian*

Exclusion criteria

Child is exclusively breastfeeding
Child is severely malnourished
Presence of 'General Danger Signs'
Presence of severe disease (including severe malaria, severe LRTI, severe diarrhoea)
Needing hospitalisation for any reason
Known history of allergy to the nutritional supplementation
Having a sibling enrolled in the study*