Zinc Sulphate vs. Zinc Amino Acid Chelate
Zinc Sulphate vs. Zinc Amino Acid Chelate
Acute respiratory infection and acute diarrhea are among the most prevalent diseases of
 childhood increase the burden of morbidity and mortality in children under 5 years.

 Among the possible strategies for its prevention is important to count on good nutritional
 status for use in developing a good immune response to infections. Zinc deficiency has been
 shown to favor the development of infections and has been considered a real public health
 problem.

 Within the zinc compounds used are zinc amino acid chelate and zinc sulphate, the first that
 has shown evidence of being better absorbed and tolerated.

 We propose a study showing the effectiveness of zinc amino acid chelate and zinc sulphate in
 the prevention of acute diarrheal disease and acute respiratory infection.
Inclusion Criteria:

 Children who

 -  Belong to institute FAN in Medellín

 -  Attend full time to institute FAN (eight hours)

 -  Have 2 to 5 years

 Exclusion Criteria:

 Children who

 -  Children at the began of the study are with acute diarrheal disease and acute
 respiratory infection.

 -  Recurrent pneumonia, cystic fibrosis, gastrointestinal malformations, persistent
 diarrhea of any cause, inflammatory bowel disease.

 -  Failure to attend the educational institution for more than 10 days

 -  No consumption of zinc supplementation for more than 10 days, because of insistence to
 the school