Acute Infective Diarrhoea
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seen with severe dehydration and the World Health Organisation believe 90% of all deaths from diarrhoea in children may be prevented. Chronic diarrhoea has emerged, however, as an important problem as a result of this improvement in mortality and in particular, persistent diarrhoea that is, diarrhoea that begins acutely but persists, continuing beyond two weeks after the onset of the acute diarrhoea. The causes of this symptom are many and the best treatment for persistent diarrhoea is not yet agreed.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006