Table 5.

Causes and grade of adverse events by treatment periods

	Intervention (n=71)			Washout (n=81)			Total (n=152)
	RUSF-v	RUSF-b	Total	Washout 1	Washout 2	Total
Abscesses	0	0	0	1 moderate	0	1	1
Abdominal pain	0	1 moderate	1	2 moderate	0	2	3
Anaemia	0	0	0	1 moderate	0	1	1
Acid reflux	1 severe	0	1	0	0	0	1
Body weakness	0	0	0	1 mild	0	1	1
Chest tightness	1 severe	0	1	0	0	0	1
Chickenpox	1 moderate	0	1	1 moderate	0	1	2
Diarrhoea	1 moderate	0	1	0	3 moderate	3	4
Epigastric pain	0	0	0	1 severe	0	1	1
Fever with source	0	1 severe	1	1 mild	0	1	2
Fever without source	4 moderate	1 moderate	5	3 (2 moderate, 1 severe)	0	3	8
Headache	0	1 severe	1	0	0	0	1
Malaria	8 (1 mild, 2 moderate, 5 severe)	10 (1 mild, 8 moderate, 1 severe)	18	26 (2 mild, 16 moderate, 8 severe)	11 (9 moderate, 2 severe)	37	55
Measles	0	0	0	0	1 moderate	1	1
Muscle spasms	1 mild	0	1	0	0	0	1
Nosebleeds	0	1 moderate	1	0	0	0	1
Pulmonary tuberculosis	0	0	0	1 moderate	0	1	1
Stroke	1 moderate	0	1	0	0	0	1
Tonsilitis	2 moderate	0	2	1 mild	2 (1 moderate, 1 severe)	3	5
Upper respiratory tract infections	2 moderate	4 (1 mild, 3 moderate)	6	3 (1 mild, 1 moderate, 1 severe)	0	3	9
Urinary tract infections	0	0	0	3 (1 moderate, 2 severe)	1 mild	4	4
Vaso-occlusive pain	14 (2 mild, 5 moderate, 7 severe)	15 (1 mild, 10 moderate, 4 severe)	29	12 (1 mild, 3 moderate, 7 severe, 1 very severe)	5 (1 mild, 3 moderate, 1 severe)	17	46
Vomiting	1 mild	0	1	0	0	0	1
Wounds	0	0	0	0	1 severe	1	1
Total	37	34	71	57	24	81	152

RUSF=ready-to-use food supplement.