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14 infants with chronic or recurrent diarrhea and evidence of malabsorption or malnutrition took part in a comparative study of weight gain in children with or without diagnosed enteropathies fed with a lactalbumin hydrolysate. The infants, all under 6 months old, were treated at a pediatric hospital in Santo Domingo. The lactalbumin hydrolysate was administered in progressively increasing concentrations according to the response. None of the 14 children were treated with antibiotics. The 5 infected children were aged 3.4 months and weighed 5115 g on average at admission. 3 were malnourished according to their weight for age. The 9 with negative stool cultures were 3.3 months old and weighed 5289 g on average at admission. 8 were malnourished. The infants were hospitalized for 5-18 days. The average weight gain was 6.9% on the 7th day and 9.3% at discharge. The average weight gain was 7% for infected children and 6.8% for those with negative cultures. The average weight gain at 7 days was 8% for malnourished children vs. 5.8% for the 3 adequately nourished children. The study demonstrated the efficacy of an easily digestible nutritional preparation in the nutritional recuperation of malnourished young infants with chronic diarrhea and evidence of maldigestion and absorption, even in the presence of enteropathologies.
Arch Domin Pediatr
PMID:[Feeding with lactoalbumin hydrolisate in breast feeding infants with chronic diarrhea and enteropathogens]. 1228 99