Chronic diarrhea in children: Indian Perspective

Chronic diarrhea in children.

Definitions Chronic diarrhea is a common complaint in pediatric medicine and can pose a complex situation for practitioners and families. This complaint is both a symptom and a sign. (1) Although patients or their parents often assess the presence of diarrhea by reporting stool consistency and frequency, one can more scientifically define diarrhea as stool volume >10 g/kg per day in infants and...

Chronic diarrhea in children

Acute diarrhea is a leading cause of under-five mortality in developing countries like India. Most of the diarrheal episodes recover within 14 days. However in certain cases acute diarrhea may last for more than 14 days in which it is termed as persistent diarrhea if presumed to be of infectious origin. Various malabsorptive syndromes due to carbohydrate, fat and protein malabsorption can resul...

ChroniC panCreatitis: south indian perspeCtive

It was Zuidema from Indonesia who first reported a series of 45 patients with pancreatic calcification with diabetes mellitus who were poor and consumed a proteinand calorie-deficient diet, and also had striking clinical features of malnutrition like emaciation, parotidomegaly, hair and skin changes not unlike that of Kwashiorkor.1 This was followed by a series of reports of similar patients fr...

Screening for Celiac Disease in Growth Retarded Children with or without Chronic Diarrhea: a Study on Children in Kerman/Iran

Background & Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the yield of screening for celiac disease in children with failure to thrive and with or without chronic diarrhea. Methods: In this prospective study, 144 children aged 1-14 years and weighed below the fifth percentile with or without chronic diarrhea were studied during six months in 2010. Sample collection was done in the private offic...

Acute diarrhea in adults and children: a global perspective.