The Use of Medium-Chain Triglyceride in Children with Intestinal Malabsorption

Michael Gracey (Gastroenterological Research Unit, Princess Margaret Children's Medical Research Foundation, Perth, Western Australia)

Paediatrica Indonesiana
Vol 14 No 7-8 (1974): July - August 1974

The comments which followare a brief summary of the thera-peutic place of MCT in children withmalabsorption. This will be followedby some remarks about the potentialvalue of MCT in countries like Indo-nesia where the commonest cause ofchronic diarrhoea and malabsorptionin children is malnutrition and chro-nic and repeated gastrointestinal in-fections and infestations and whereMCT has not been used widely.