For Malnourished Children, New Therapeutic Food Boosts Gut Microbes, Healthy Development (IMAGE)

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For Malnourished Children, New Therapeutic Food Boosts Gut Microbes, Healthy Development

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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Dhaka, Bangladesh, are developing a new approach to address childhood malnutrition. They are designing therapeutic foods aimed at repairing the gut microbiomes of malnourished children. In a clinical trial of moderately malnourished children in Bangladesh, the team found that a type of therapeutic food they developed is superior to standard therapy. Pictured is a Bangladeshi mother and child in the Nutritional Rehabilitation Unit of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Hospital in Dhaka.

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International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research

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