Combination Food-Based and Supplemental Iron Replacement Therapy for Children with Moderate-to-Severe Anaemia in a Rural Ghanaian Setting: A Proof-of-Concept Study

awrence Osei Tutu0 个研究点目标入组 100 人开始时间: 2019年7月31日最近更新: 2023年5月29日

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•Inclusion Criteria include the following:
•Children 6 – 59 months;
•Hb between 40 and < 70g/L at the time of screening as measured by an automated haematology analyser;
•Haemodynamically compensated or stable, not urgently requiring RBC transfusion;
•Not critically ill and needing urgent intensive care and/or surgery; and
•No evidence of ongoing blood loss (overtly or per facility’s standards for occult blood loss diagnosis), haemolysis (normal urobilinogen levels on urine dipstick examination), infections and temperature spikes (blood culture positive and on antibiotics)

•Exclusion Criteria include the following:
•Acute phase of management for severe acute malnutrition, severe malaria and/or severe bacterial infection or sepsis requiring parenteral antibiotics;
•Haemodynamically unstable; heart failure, ongoing haemolysis or bleeding, on chemotherapy, aplastic anaemia;
•Surgery within 14 days of hospitalisation;
•Unable to take food or medications orally; and
•Recipient of chronic blood transfusion therapy

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awrence Osei Tutu