Lead Sponsor

Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College

Collaborators

Age

0 - 4 years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

•Children aged 6 to 59 months with documented recurrent acute lower respiratory infection i.e., more than two episodes of ALRI in one year or more than three episodes in any time frame.

•Children with congenital heart diseases
•Children with congenital anomalies which can cause recurrent chest infection
•Children with Tuberculosis
•Children with bronchial asthma or hyperactive airway disease
•Children with WZS \< -2 of HZS \< -2 as per WHO standards
•Children with any diarrhoeal episode in past 3 months
•Children having receive any zinc supplementation in past 3 months
•Children who did not turn up on follow up and could not be contacted were excluded from the study.