Infant and Young Child Feeding in Egypt

These guidelines have been developed to standardize the delivery of services and to implement the guidance on the Introduction of complementary feeding in Egyptian Children.

It provides guidance to primary health care providers, pediatricians and specially trained nurses.

The guidelines aimed to achieve Proper physical & neurodevelopmental outcome of infants, prevent malnutrition, under nutrition and over nutrition and prevent micronutrient deficiencies and its comorbidities.

This version of the guideline includes recommendations and good practice statements for proper introduction of solid food for healthy full term infants of both sexes, either breastfed or non - breastfed without co-morbidities.