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An account of some of the cases and their disposal may be of interest.
Bottle-fed babies who do badly at home will generally pick up and begin
to thrive on diets like lactic acid milk or whey, which are difficult for
their mothers to prepare at home. They also benefit from having their
progress constantly watched and their feeding closely controlled. As soon
as their damaged digestions have recovered they are gradually accustomed
to a diet of a simple and ordinary kind which can be easily made at home.
Marasmus is a severe form of wasting, in which the tolerance for food is
so low that the child cannot take enough to support its needs without
getting diarrhoea and losing weight. Success in treatment depends on
finding some food which it will manage to take without losing weight.
Both children suffering from it recovered.