Fellowship Training and Field Experience on Nutrition and Health

Abstract

Icddr,b known as the international Centre for Diarrhoeal disease research, Bangladesh. It is an international health research organization located in mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Icddr,b addresses some of the most critical health concerns facing the whole today, they savings lives through research and treatment. Icddr,b in collaboration with academic and research institutions all over the world they conducts research, training and extension activities, as well as programme-based activities, to develop and share knowledge for global lifesaving solutions. They are working with the rural poor people also they donate free treatment, free hospitality cost, free food and free medicine. They are working on diarrhoealogy , nutritional status of child health, kwashiorkor, marasmus and edema ,severer acute malnutrition, moderate acute malnutrition, therapeutic diet, breast feeding counseling, etc . They trained me on different topics e.g. therapeutic diet, severe acute malnutrition, moderate acute malnutrition, mid-upper armed circumstances (MUAC), and breast feeding counselling, anthropometric measurements, diarrhea (persistent), nutritional rehabilitation, follow up etc. Suitable foods for the treatment of diarrheal diseases and under nutrition, Assessment of nutritional status: anthropometric techniques, Z scores and their interpretation, Management of acute malnutrition in under-5 children , Preparation of therapeutic diets (F-75, F-100, ReSoMal, Low-lactose containing infant formula, Milk suji, Rice Suji, CC, Khichuri and Halwa) for acute malnutrition and diarrheal diseases, Nutritional rehabilitation of severely malnourished children, Community-based management of severe and moderate acute malnutrition in (CMAM) U-5 childrens,Ward round and observation of case management with particular interest in feeding and dietary intervention, Dietary and micronutrient therapy of persistent diarrhea,Observation and taking part in the health and nutrition education sessions in the wards and nutrition rehabilitation unit.