Background: Diarrhea is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity during the early life period especially in developing countries. Micronutrients deficiencies have been proposed either as a risk factor or a consequence of diarrhea. Association studies highlight the relation of vitamins and minerals’ deficiencies with acute diarrhea. In this regard we aimed to evaluate the status of vitamins ...

Background: Zinc is essential for nucleic acid metabolism, protein synthesis and tissue healing. Zinc deficiency has detrimental effects on child health and increases mortality rate of pneumonia and gastroenteritis. By improving absorptive function of villous cells and by reducing pathogenic enterobacteriaceae in lumen, Zinc improves diarrhea outcome in children. Previous studies in developing ...

background: diarrhea is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity during the early life period especially in developing countries. micronutrients deficiencies have been proposed either as a risk factor or a consequence of diarrhea. association studies highlight the relation of vitamins and minerals’ deficiencies with acute diarrhea. in this regard we aimed to evaluate the status of vitamins a ...

conclusions rice soup regimen was highly effective and inexpensive in the treatment of acute diarrhea in children. thus, in addition to the common treatment by g-ors, rice soup can be consumed simultaneously with g-ors. results at the end of study, the time for treating acute watery diarrhea in the intervention and control groups were 21.10 ± 8.81 and 34.55 ± 5.82 hours (p < 0.001) and hospital...

background recently cryptosporidium has gained much attention as a clinically human pathogen in immunocompromised cases and young children. this study investigated frequency and risk factors related to cryptosporidiosis in under 5–year old children. patients and methods stools were examined by elisa method to detect cryptosporidium surface antigen (csa) using remel prospect cryptosporidium (mon...

background : cryptosporidium is an intracellular apicomplexan parasite that infects a wide range of vertebrates including humans. cryptosporidiosis is a major cause of diarrhea in children with and without human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection in developing countries. more recently, the molecular methods for identification of morphologically indistin­guishable species have been developed...

ganglioneuroma is a very rare cause of chronic diarrhea in children. this benign tumor usually presents with diarrhea and failure to thrive. it is necessary for physicians to be familiar with this rare cause of chronic diarrhea. here we present and discuss such a case.