Effects of deworming on malnourished preschool children in India: an open-labelled, cluster-randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

More than a third of the world's children are infected with intestinal nematodes. Current control approaches emphasise treatment of school age children, and there is a lack of information on the effects of deworming preschool children.

Methodology

We studied the effects on the heights and weights of 3,935 children, initially 1 to 5 years of age, of five rounds of anthelmintic treatment (400 mg albendazole) administered every 6 months over 2 years. The children lived in 50 areas, each defined by precise government boundaries as urban slums, in Lucknow, North India. All children were offered vitamin A every 6 months, and children in 25 randomly assigned slum areas also received 6-monthly albendazole. Treatments were delivered by the State Integrated Child Developmen

SUBMITTER: Awasthi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2291568 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature