essay writing on severe acute malnutrition among children
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Severe Acute Malnutrition
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Thanks to an appropriate management scheme, from being severely malnourished (weight 4.75 kg), this 2-year old girl not only gained 32% more weight in 3 weeks (weight 6.28), but she also gained an appetite for living.
1. Inpatient treatment of severe acute malnutrition
Severe acute malnutrition is defined by very low weight for height (below -3z scores of the median WHO growth standards), by visible severe wasting, or by the presence of nutritional oedema. Decreasing child mortality and improving maternal health depends heavily on reducing malnutrition, which is responsible, directly or indirectly, for 35% of deaths among children under five.
Although the median under-five case-fatality rate for severe acute malnutrition typically ranges from 30% to 50%, it can be reduced substantially when physiological and metabolic changes are taken into account. Management of severe acute malnutrition according to WHO guidelines reduced the case-fatality rate by 55% in hospital settings and recent studies suggest that communities such as ready-to-use therapeutic foods, can be used to manage severe acute malnutrition in the community settings. In order to train health workers in applying this scheme WHO has created a course which, with the aid of institutional partners in Bangladesh, Chile, Gambia, Malawi, and the UK, has been conducted in countries in the African, South-East Asia and Western Pacific Regions.
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2. Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition in children
Severe acute malnutrition is a life-threatening condition requiring urgent treatment. Until recently, the recommendation was to refer these children to the hospital to receive therapeutic diets along with medical care. The situation changed recently with the advent of ready to use therapeutic foods (RUTF) which allows the management in the community of large numbers of children who are severely malnourished above the age of 6 months without medical complications. A meeting of experts was organized by the Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development and the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development of the WHO, by UNICEF and the UN Standing committee on Nutrition in Geneva on 21-23rd November 2005 to review these recent developments and formulate recommendations. The report of this meeting is available on this web page. It is expected that the implementation of these community-based interventions on a large scale along with a strengthening of referral facilities for severely malnourished children with complications could transform the lives of millions of these children.