OBJECTIVE Few reports are available on some benefits, such as shortened duration of diarrhea and better weight gain, for lactose-free over lactose-containing formula in acute childhood diarrhea. We evaluated the effects of lactose-free formula in dietary management of acute diarrhea in formula-fed children. METHODS This controlled-clinical trial was conducted on formula-fed children, aged 1 t...

Background: Noroviruses are the most common known causes of non-bacterial acute gastroenteritis worldwide. Norovirus usually presents with vomiting and diarrhea in winter. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate outbreak one villages Kurdistan Province, Iran, from February 1 12, 2019. In this period, 149 people developed joint illness symptoms diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal...

n the spring of 2007, just weeks before my college graduation , my parents called to tell me that my grandmother was sick. I was worried to hear that she was in the hospital, but like the rest of my family, I had little doubt that she'd be better in no time. At a spry 82 years, my grandmother was the picture of health. She was a nonsmoker, a nondrinker, and had had no medical problems except fo...

Scarsdale, New York Cornell Vet 57(4) :579-597, 1967 Eosinophilic leukemia seems to be as rare in quadrupeds as in man. It has been reported in a pig, associated with whitish nodules in the kidney, and in an 8-year-old castrated cat which had a WBC count of 150,000 with 73% eosinophils. This cat lost energy, had vomiting and diarrhea with moderate anemia. and enlargement of the spleen and liver...

1. Department of Radiology, Bezmialem Vakif University, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey Background: A 25-year-old man was treated with ampicillin for acute tooth inflammation. After five days, he presented to the emergency department with intermittent abdominal pain especially at the right lower and left upper quadrant, bloody diarrhea, fever and nausea. Physical examination revealed diff...

Patients with Crohn's disease are at higher risk of developing antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS), of which 1% develop life-threatening, rapidly progressive clotting known as catastrophic APS (CAPS). A 17-year-old male presented with intermittent bloody diarrhea and abdominal pain. He developed myopericarditis, alveolar hemorrhage, left frontal and parieto-occipital infarct, superior sagi...

On 28 October 1998, the Perth District Health Unit received two reports of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection presenting as bloody diarrhea, in an unrelated child and a young adult from opposite ends of Perth County. The public-health inspector found that the only risk factor for each person was consumption of unpasteurized apple cider. In the child’s family, a sibling and the child’s mother we...

Fungal infections of the gastrointestinal tract are not common in children, especially in immunocompetent ones. In this case report we describe a child who was presented with abdominal pain and mass, bloody diarrhea and fever. He was treated for amebiasis, but due to treatment failure and deterioration of his condition, he underwent a laparatomy. Histologic examination of the excised bowel in t...

BACKGROUND Klebsiella oxytoca was recently shown to be the causative agent of antibiotic-associated hemorrhagic colitis. Because it is unclear whether K. oxytoca also causes nonhemorrhagic antibiotic-associated diarrhea, our study investigated a possible association between K. oxytoca and that disorder. METHODS A total of 371 consecutive patients were recruited into 4 study groups: (1) group ...