In Ethiopia, evidence is lacking about maternal care-taking and environmental risk factors that contribute to acute diarrhoea and the case management of diarrhoea. The aim of this study was to identify the risk factors and to understand the management of acute diarrhoea. A pretested structured questionnaire was used for interviewing mothers of 440 children in a prospective, matched, case-contro...

Objectives: To assess the potential role of consumption of shellfish (particularly raw oysters) and tap water in the winter epidemic of acute diarrhoea in France. Design: Population based, case-control study during the 1995-6 winter epidemic of acute diarrhoea in France. Setting: A national network comprising 1% of general practitioners in France. Subjects: 568 pairs of cases and controls consu...

The duodenal microflora was studied during the first week of diarrhoea in 40 infants with acute infectious diarrhoea of different aetiologies and compared with that in a convalescent group and a group in whom diarrhoea of known aetiology had persisted for more than 14 days after an acute onset. In the acute phase 16 of the 40 infants had more than 10(4) colony forming bacteria/ml, predominantly...

Acute Diarrhoea in children is the most frequent gastroenterological disorder and a common cause of dehydration children. The management acute diarrhoea consists replacement lost fluid with glucose-electrolyte oral rehydration solution. Probiotics have been used as adjunctive therapy treatment diarrhoea. In this study we evaluated efficacy Bacillus clausii (TIL 19T, TIL 21C, 28S, 30R) 48 aged b...

The most frequent intestinal parasites that cause severe disorders in humans are Giardia lamblia and Entamoeba histolytica, which alter serum concentrations of deferent markers due to virulence factors pathogenicity. A large number people with infection asymptomatic, they can go for up a year without showing any signs or symptoms. Additionally, prolonged diarrhoea but not acute diarrhoea, these...

seen with severe dehydration and the World Health Organisation believe 90% of all deaths from diarrhoea in children may be prevented. Chronic diarrhoea has emerged, however, as an important problem as a result of this improvement in mortality and in particular, persistent diarrhoea that is, diarrhoea that begins acutely but persists, continuing beyond two weeks after the onset of the acute diar...

AIM Certain probiotic agents, e.g. Lactobacillus GG, have shown efficacy in clinical trials for the treatment of acute childhood diarrhoea, but few studies have examined the effect of Saccharomyces boulardii. We evaluated the effect of S. boulardii in children with acute diarrhoea. METHODS Two hundred children were randomized to receive S. boulardii in a granulated form in a daily dose of 250...

Bitar, J., Najjar, S. S., and Asfour, R. Y. (1970). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 190. Diphenoxylate hydrochloride therapy in the diarrhoea of malnourished infants. In a double-blind study on 45 malnourished infants with moderately severe non-specific diarrhoea, diphenoxylate hydrochloride proved to be an effective antidiarrhoeal agent when the diarrhoea was acute, but not as effective ...

Acute diarrhoea is a principal cause of morbidity and mortali ty among children in developing countries. The prompt and correct use of an o ral glucose elect roly te solution, developed and advocated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF, has revolutionized the management of acute diarrhoea. Yet these solutions were widely underused in diarrhoeal episodes, partly due to the inabilit...