Table 1.
Intervention | Delivery method |
Egg | One egg daily, 6 days a week for either 2 months (children at risk for stunting and malnourished adults) or 3 months (stunted children) |
Milk | 150 mL whole milk daily, 6 days a week for either 2 months (children at risk for stunting and malnourished adults) or 3 months (stunted children) |
Micronutrient sprinkles | –Parents will be given one sachet of multiple micronutrient sprinkles per day to be administered to the child at home with the midday meal for 2 months –Each sachet contains one recommended dietary allowance (RDA) of vitamin A, vitamin C, folic acid, iron and zinc |
Nutritional counselling | Parents/caregivers will be provided with nutritional counselling with particular emphasis on adding vegetable oil to the cooked diet as a source of energy as well as sources of animal-based products, such as small fish or chicken meat, and so on along with regular intake of vegetables |
Antihelminthic treatment | –As per national guidelines –If participants have not been treated for helminths in the preceding 3 months, will get either 200 mg of albendazole or 10 mg/kg pyrantel pamoate single dose |
Treatment | Intercurrent illnesses |