| evaluation of dowdo (wheat-milk gruel) in children with acute diarrhoea. | appropriate feeding practices have an important impact on diarrhoeal disease management in developing countries. we evaluated the efficacy of feeding dowdo, a wheat-milk gruel, traditionally used as a weaning food in the northern areas of pakistan. dowdo was compared with khitchri, a rice-lentil mixture, in acute diarrhoea through a randomized trial. seventy- six children between 6 and 36 months of age, with acute watery diarrhoea of less than seven days were recruited. after rehydration with st ... | 1997 | 9056730 |