Initial result of community-based nutritional intervention with sprout powder in 0 to 12-month children in a rural area of Thanh Hoa province

ABSTRACT

The incidence of malnutrition in 0 to 12-month children is high in Thanh Hãa province. Use of intestinal enzyme aplase as an augment, combining hamlet health workers and families to construct the structure of diet for children with available foods can reduce the malnutrition incidence to lower than 30%. Beside this, the interventional activities to provide the nutritional knowledge with mothers can change the nutritional practice rapidly and solidly.