It is almost twenty years ago since under Nutricia's auspices the first
Nutricia Symposium took place. Professor Jonxis was mainly responsible
for the organiza- tion of the earlier symposia, whilst Professor Visser
organized the fifth Nutricia Symposium in 1978. This book is the
commitment to paper of the lectures given during the sixth Nutricia/Cow
& Gate Symposium held in Louvain in 1983. Both Professor Eeckels and
Professor Ransome-Kuti succeeded in collecting a panel of experts on
'Child Health in the Tropics'. We hope, in fact we are sure, that you
will consider the contents of this book a daily stimulation in your
medical profession. October 1984 Contents Preface. . . . . . . . . . . .
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. . . . . . . . . V List of authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XI List
of participants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XIV SESSION I FEEDING, FEEDING
PRACTICES AND GROWTH Chairman: Chap-Yung Yeung A. Omololu, The practice
of breastfeeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
M. G. M. Rowland, S. G. l. Goh, S. Tullock, D. T. Dunn and R. l. Hayes,
Growth and weaning in urban Gambian infants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . 9 W. Klaver, Some considerations on the formulation of weaning
mixes. . 19 R. G. Hendrickse, The influence of mycotoxins on child
health in the tropics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 V. S.
Tanphaichitr, C. Tuchinda, V. Suvatte and S. Tuchinda, Bodily growth in
thalassemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 43 L. Sinisterra, Ecological evaluation of human
development: the case of the child in the tropics. . . . . . . . . . . .
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SESSION II DIARRHOEAL DISEASES Chairman: o. Ransome-Kuti A. M. Molla, S.
A. Sarker, A. Molla, M. Kathoon, W. B.
