Pdf Treatment Outcome Of Severe Acute Malnutrition Sam Cases At The

Pdf Treatment Outcome Of Severe Acute Malnutrition Sam Cases At The Overall, 67.2% of cases met the criteria for sam (muac <115 mm), 27.3% of cases met the criterion for moderate acute malnutrition (115 to <125), and 5.5% were normal (muac ≥125 mm). his latter category of children with normal muac could have had some form of oedema suggesting sam cases. he mean muac of children on admission and discharge was 11.1 ± 0.9 and 11.9 ± 1.2, respectively. he. Children who were diagnosed as having marasmus on admission stayed longer before recovery than their kwashiorkor counterparts and younger children were of greater risk of nonrecovery, and patients who completed the treatment plan had higher probability of recovery. objective. this study investigated the treatment outcomes and determinant factors likely to be associated with recovery rate.

Pdf The Effectiveness Of Treatment For Severe Acute Malnutrition S Controlling for other factors, patients who completed the treatment plan had 3.2 times higher probability of recovery from severe acute malnutrition (sam) as compared to patients who defaulted. Outpatient therapeutic feeding program (otp) is part community based management of acute malnutrition (cmam) for children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition (sam) . the program services include diagnosis and provision of ready to use therapeutic foods (rutf) every week for 2 months; supplementation of medications like amoxicillin, folic acid, vitamin a, measles vaccine and deworming. Each year, approximately 5.9 million children around the world die before their fifth birthday (you and others 2015). the leading killers are prematurity and pneumonia, responsible for 17.8 percent and 15.5 percent of all deaths in this age group, respectively (liu and others 2014, 2016). degrees of malnutrition are associated with increased risk of all cause mortality and increased risk of. Background. severe acute malnutrition (sam) is caused by a significant imbalance between nutritional intake and individual needs. the uncomplicated form of sam is managed at the outpatient therapeutic programme (otp) in primary health care facilities with some medical protocols and ready to use therapeutic food (rutf).