The Use of Medium-Chain Triglyceride in Children with Intestinal Malabsorption
Abstract
The comments which follow
are a brief summary of the thera-
peutic place of MCT in children with
malabsorption. This will be followed
by some remarks about the potential
value of MCT in countries like Indo-
nesia where the commonest cause of
chronic diarrhoea and malabsorption
in children is malnutrition and chro-
nic and repeated gastrointestinal in-
fections and infestations and where
MCT has not been used widely.
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Accepted 2017-06-08
Published 2017-06-09
