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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1987 33(6):337-342; doi:10.1093/tropej/33.6.337
© 1987 by Oxford University Press
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Role of Zinc, Copper, and Ascorbic Acid in some Common Clinical Paediatric Problems

F. M. Akinkugbe, MD, MPH and S. I. Ette, PhD

Institute of Child Health, University College Hospital Ibadan Nigeria.

The ascorbic acid, zinc, and copper levels in the plasma of children with protein-energy malnutrition, asthma and sickle cell disease were determined. Children with malnutrition had low values of zinc and copper, those with asthma had low plasma copper and scorbic acid while those with sickle cell disease had low ascorbic acid and zinc levels. The use of these trace elements particularly vitamin C and zinc in the management of children with malnutrition and sickle cell disease in our environment would seem justified and should thus be given serious consideration.


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