Worm treatment improves weight gain in Ugandan preschool children
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Worm treatment improves weight gain in Ugandan preschool children
Giving anthelmintic treatments routinely as a part of regularly scheduled health services can lead to extra weight gain in preschool children in Uganda. Alderman and colleagues (p 122) randomised over 27 000 children aged 1-7 years from 48 parishes participating in child health days to an additional 400 mg albendazole or to standard services only over a three year period. When treatments were given twice a year children who received albendazole had a weight gain about 10% above that expected; when they were given annually the treated children gained about 5% more.
Credit: ALISTAIR PENNY/STILL PICTURES
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Effect on weight gain of routinely giving albendazole to preschool children during child health days in Uganda: cluster randomised controlled trial
Harold Alderman, Joseph Konde-Lule, Isaac Sebuliba, Donald Bundy, and Andrew Hall
BMJ 2006 333: 122.(Harold Alderman, Joseph K)
Giving anthelmintic treatments routinely as a part of regularly scheduled health services can lead to extra weight gain in preschool children in Uganda. Alderman and colleagues (p 122) randomised over 27 000 children aged 1-7 years from 48 parishes participating in child health days to an additional 400 mg albendazole or to standard services only over a three year period. When treatments were given twice a year children who received albendazole had a weight gain about 10% above that expected; when they were given annually the treated children gained about 5% more.
Credit: ALISTAIR PENNY/STILL PICTURES
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Effect on weight gain of routinely giving albendazole to preschool children during child health days in Uganda: cluster randomised controlled trial
Harold Alderman, Joseph Konde-Lule, Isaac Sebuliba, Donald Bundy, and Andrew Hall
BMJ 2006 333: 122.(Harold Alderman, Joseph K)