The Recent WHO Guideline on Acute Malnutrition Overestimates Therapeutic Energy Requirement
LANCET REGIONAL HEALTH - SOUTHEAST ASIA(2024)
摘要
The World Health Organization has recently updated the guideline on the prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema (acute malnutrition) in infants and children under 5 years. Apart from differences with regard to the nutritional framework that defines fi nes the quantity of energy required as Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) for the outpatient treatment of severe wasting and/or nutritional oedema, there are also important gaps in the practical guidance. Instead of the recommended energy intake of 150-185 - 185 kcal/kg/day, our alternative calculations indicate the requirement to be only 105-120 - 120 kcal/kg/day. If true, the implementation of such caloric overfeeding can have adverse consequences. Gaps in practical guidance also need to be addressed, including the timing of transition to home-based diets, maximal duration of therapeutic feeding, especially in non-responders (similar to 50% similar to 50% in South Asia), and the role of augmented home foods as the primary therapeutic food option. Copyright (c) 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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关键词
Ready-to-use therapeutic foods,Resting energy expenditure,Severe acute malnutrition,Under-five children,Wasting
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