Hyderabad slum study: Iron-folic acid cuts child anaemia by 80 pc

Hyderabad slum study: Iron-folic acid cuts child anaemia by 80 pc

Hyderabad: A study conducted among children living in urban slums of Hyderabad has found that early screening for anaemia followed by timely iron-folic acid supplementation can reduce childhood anaemia by nearly 80 per cent, even as adding probiotics to the treatment confers no additional benefit. The research, carried out by scientists at the city-based ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN) and published in the European Journal of Cli…