{"id":5610,"date":"2022-09-13T10:58:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/zinc-supplementation-helps-malnourished-children-with-infections-of-the-intestines\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:58:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:03","slug":"zinc-supplementation-helps-malnourished-children-with-infections-of-the-intestines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/zinc-supplementation-helps-malnourished-children-with-infections-of-the-intestines\/","title":{"rendered":"Zinc supplementation helps malnourished children with infections of the intestines"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This study, conducted by a Bengali and an American research institute, investigated the effects of zinc supplementation in malnourished children with shigellosis (infection of the intestines caused by\u00a0Shigella\u00a0bacteria). The study was conducted in a Bengali hospital and included 56 moderately malnourished children between 12 and 59 months. The children received liquid zinc or a placebo twice a day for 2 weeks in addition to conventional therapy (antibiotics). The results showed that children receiving additional zinc recovered significantly faster from this acute illness than the control group. Furthermore, they showed a lower incidence of diarrhea in the 6 months after supplementation. More details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Roy et al.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/17554249\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This study, conducted by a Bengali and an American research institute, investigated the effects of zinc supplementation in malnourished children with shigellosis (infection of the intestines caused by\u00a0Shigella\u00a0bacteria). The study was conducted in a Bengali hospital and included 56 moderately malnourished children between 12 and 59 months. The children received liquid zinc or a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6329,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/6329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}