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...

Vibrio parahaemolyticus usually causes a self-limiting acute diarrheal illness, and is rarely tested for in cases of chronic diarrhea. We present a rare case of chronic diarrhea caused by V. parahaemolyticus in a heart transplant patient requiring antibiotic treatment.

celiac disease has protean manifestations. in this report, a 24 year-old young female with celiac disease and acute lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (dvt) is presented. the patient was a 24 year-old female who presented with long standing diarrhea, 8 kg weight loss in the recent month, lower extremity edema, petechiae and purpura. laboratory exam demonstrated very high titers of iga antie...

BACKGROUND: The therapeutic effects of zinc and copper in reducing diarrheal morbidity have important cost implications. This health services research study evaluated the cost of treating a child with acute diarrhea in the hospital, the impact of micronutrient supplementation on the mean predicted costs and its cost-effectiveness as compared to using only standard oral rehydration solution (ORS...

Abstract Acute diarrhea with severe dehydration has been a major worldwide cause of death in children younger than 5 years of age. Etiological studies of gastroenteritis have shown that rotavirus causes 40&ndash;50% of acute diarrhea among infants&nbsp;and children in both developing and developed nations. Numerous epidemiologic studies in the US and the World Health Organization have docu...

IAP Task Force on Management of Acute Diarrhea recommends 20mg of elemental zinc to be given to all children with acute diarrhea older then 6 months and 10 mg to all children aged 2 to 6 months for 14 days(1). We studied the pattern of prescriptions of zinc in acute diarrhea and its relationship to the antimicrobial prescribing patterns in a private tertiary care children's hospital. We carried...

The aim of this study was to examine the effect of demographic, socioeconomic, environmental, maternal reproductive, dietary, and nutritional variables on diarrhea risk and prognosis using a hierarchical framework. A case-control study of children aged 0-23 months in Greater Metropolitan Porto Alegre was conducted during the peak season for diarrhea in 19871988. Three groups were investigated, ...