Mothers take part in nutritional workshops for 15 days in the home of a community health worker, during which they learn better feeding and child care practices, using a mix of traditional products and modern knowledge.

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The parts of the body that mustn't dissolve--cell membranes, for instance--are made of oily molecules, and even a child knows that oil and water don't mix.

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Second, unless clean water is available to mix with it, the result is likely to be a diarrhoeal disease that may kill the child anyway.

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If your pharmacist says it is OK to mix the pills with food, you can also hide them in yogurt or applesauce and see if your child will slurp them down.

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"If you throw into the mix that people are worried about finances, any other issue that's already there, like an ill child or a disabled child, is going to be magnified that much more, " she says.

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