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Guidelines for managing acute gastroenteritis
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Editor,—Murphy’s paper1 “intended to provide evidence based recommendations about . . . clinical management of infants and children with acute gastroenteritis”. Based on six references he concluded that “Many studies have now indicated that there is no advantage . . . of . . .gradually increasing the feed concentration during the recovery phase after gastroenteritis.”
Unfortunately one of these references concluded differently2; another compared refeeding with no refeeding …