BACKGROUND Zinc treatment shortens diarrhea episodes and can prevent future episodes. In rural Africa, most children with diarrhea are not brought to health facilities. In a village-randomized trial in rural Kenya, we assessed if zinc treatment might have a community-level preventive effect on diarrhea incidence if available at home versus only at health facilities. METHODS We randomized 16 K...

Abstract
 Restrictions on activities outside the home were imposed during Covid-19 pandemic to minimize spread of virus. One that is often carried out taking medication at a health facility. Children are an age group vulnerable disease exposure. Many diseases occur in children, including diarrhea. places prone transmission facilities, while children with diarrhea tend be taken by their par...

BACKGROUND Information on the part that poor food-hygiene practices play a role in the development of diarrhea in low socioeconomic urban communities is lacking. This study was therefore aimed at assessing the contribution of food-hygiene practice to the prevalence of diarrhea among Indonesian children. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among 274 randomly selected children aged 12...

This study aimed to verify the relationship between acute diarrhea provoked by rotavirus and different indicators of craniofacial malformations. In the Hospital for Rehabilitation of Craniofacial Anomalies, 8,724 children with cleft lip and cleft palate were divided into the following groups: acute diarrhea and infection due to rotavirus (C1, n = 62), acute diarrhea (C2, n = 153) and without ac...

conclusions the frequency of b. hominis in the study was more than other reports from iran. this study revealed that among hospitalized children with diarrhea, b. hominis was the most common protozoon. results out of 160 stool samples were examined, in 37 cases (23%) including 25 boys and 12 girls, b. hominis was the most frequent protozoa, followed by giardia lamblia in 19 cases (12%). e. hist...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the influence of the type of child-care on the occurrence of acute diarrhea with special emphasis on the effect of children grouping during care. METHODS From October 1998 to January 1999 292 children, aged 24 to 36 months, recruited using a previously assembled cohort of newborns, were evaluated. Information on the type of care and occurrence of diarrhea in the previous...

OBJECTIVE To study the effect of racecadotril on reduction in the duration of acute rotavirus and non-rotavirus diarrhea. DESIGN Two randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trials. SETTING Community-based trial in an urban area in Vellore, hospital-based trial at a secondary hospital in Vellore. PARTICIPANTS 199 and 130 3-59 month old children in the community- and hospital-based trial...

Objectives:  To assess the knowledge of mother of under five children with reference to diarrhea.  To assess the knowledge of mothers of under five children with reference to prevention of diarrhea.  To assess the knowledge of mother of under five children with reference to home management of diarrhea.  To assess the effectiveness of health education on knowledge with reference to preventio...

BACKGROUND Young children in low- and middle-income countries frequently have inadequate vitamin B-12 (cobalamin) status. Poor folate status is also common and is associated with increased diarrheal and respiratory morbidity. OBJECTIVE The objective was to measure the effect of folic acid and/or vitamin B-12 administration on the incidence of diarrhea and acute lower respiratory tract infecti...