Acute gastroenteritis remains a common illness among infants and children throughout the world. Among children in the United States, acute diarrhea accounts for >1.5 million outpatient visits, 200,000 hospitalizations, and approximately 300 deaths/year. In developing countries, diarrhea is a common cause of mortality among children aged <5 years, with an estimated 2 million deaths annually. Ora...

INTRODUCTION Young children in the developing world continue to experience a median of between two and four episodes of diarrhoea each year. To better understand adherence to the WHO/UNICEF-recommended diarrhoea management guidelines, which now include zinc, this study aimed to determine how much caregivers were willing to pay for zinc treatment and to explore the characteristics of actual user...

Acute diarrhea in infants and toddlers is frequent. Especially severe dehydration increases the risk of mortality in these children. In the therapy for uncomplicated diarrhea (dehydration no more than 9% of body weight loss) it is possible to use oral rehydration solutions (ORS). They are prepared easily, applied immediately, and the composition is also optimal for the body fluids of patients. ...

professionals in the community, hospitals, and clinics are themost effective and profound solutions in both the prevention and treatment of childhood diarrhea. However, management of childhood diarrhea was not independently associated with knowledge from educational training particularly in rural areas [6] and developing countries includingNigeria [7]andtheGambia [2]. Thus, translating public h...

BACKGROUND Based on European recommendations of ESPGHAN/ESPID from 2008, first line therapy for dehydration caused by acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is oral rehydration solution (ORS). In case of oral route failure, nasogastric tube enteral rehydration is as efficient as intra-venous rehydration and seems to lead to fewer adverse events. The primary objective was to describe rehydration strategies...

This paper examined care-seeking behaviour and its associated risk factors when a family member had diarrhoea. Data was obtained from a survey conducted in Chikwawa, a district in Southern Malawi. Chikwawa is faced with a number of environmental and socioeconomic problems and currently diarrhoea morbidity in the district is estimated at 24.4%, statistically higher than the national average of 1...

A hypotonic (osmolality 224 mmol/l, sodium 60 mmol/l) oral rehydration solution (ORS) was compared with an isotonic high glucose ORS (osmolality 304 mmol/l, sodium 60 mmol/l) in children with acute diarrhoea in a randomised double blind study. The stool output and hence the mean consumption of ORS for maintenance hydration was less (p = 0.036) in patients receiving hypotonic (69 ml/kg) than iso...

This study was carried out to compare the efficacy of a cereal based ORS (prepared with 50 G of sagodana (cereal), 3.5 G/L sodium chloride, 1.5 G/L potassium chloride, 2.9 G/L trisodium citrate) with rice based oral rehydration solution (using same amounts of rice and electrolytes) for treatment of diarrhoea. One hundred and twelve children aged 3 months to 2 years with watery diarrhoea of less...

Ninety four children aged less than 5 years with diarrhoeal dehydration and acidosis were treated randomly with either World Health Organisation (WHO) oral rehydration solution containing sodium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium bicarbonate and glucose or an oral solution with tripotassium citrate monohydrate replacing the sodium bicarbonate and potassium chloride in the WHO solution. Fifty ...