PIP: Nutritional management of acute infant and child diarrhea includes continued small feeds during acute illness and compensatory increases in feeding during convalescence. Dietary fats, especially triglycerides, should be included to provide calories and facilitate energy intake when appetite is impaired. A dietary intake of at least 125% of the recommended diet should be attempted until the child achieves pre-illness weight. Continued breast feeding reduces the severity and complications of diarrhea. In bottle-fed infants, full-strength milk can be administered as soon as dehydration is corrected. In children with persistent diarrhea, however, total elimination of artificial milk is necessary. Breast or animal milk should be supplemented every 3-4 hours with staple foods enriched with oil and sugar. Particular care should be taken to provide folate, vitamin B, vitamin A, zinc, and iron in the diet. Total food intake, willingness to drink or eat, and improvement in activity are useful parameters of successful diarrhea therapy.