Fig. 1

Proportion of children with severe acute malnutrition that failed or succeeded transition from F-75 to RUTF on first attempt. 118 children failed transition to RUTF. Those who failed were children who failed the acceptance test or who had progressively reduced RUTF intake during the subsequent days or developed negative reactions such as profuse diarrhoea or vomiting when RUTF was ingested. Those who failed were given F-100. At beginning of rehabilitation phase, another attempt to RUTF was done for those who had failed transition to RUTF. Of the 118 children, 101 changed feed from F-100 to RUTF, while 10 children remained on F-100 and 7 received other feeds such as porridge. Among the 341 children that were transition, 51 developed signs and symptoms of clinical deterioration while in either transition or rehabilitation phase and were transferred back stabilisation