Summary of Complementary Feeding Interventions in LMIC

摘要

The second session of the workshop focused on important aspects of complementary feeding, generally considered to be the addition of foods during ages 6-23 months when children are continuing to receive breast milk. The first speaker, Robert E. Black, described the faltering of growth compared to the World Health Organization (WHO) growth standards that happens in this critical period, and how this has lasting adverse effects on stunted growth and development. He also put the dietary gaps in the broader context of other determinants of poor growth, including maternal factors leading to fetal growth restriction and premature delivery, infectious diseases, such as diarrhea, and possibly heavy exposure of the intestine to pathogenic microbes leading to environmental enteropathy.