BACKGROUND Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) accounts for two million deaths worldwide annually. In those hospitalised with SAM, concomitant infections and diarrhoea are frequent complications resulting in adverse outcome. We examined the clinical and laboratory features on admission and outcome of children with SAM and diarrhoea at a Kenyan district hospital. METHODS A 4-year prospective descr...

jasminum amplexicaule buch.-ham. (oleaceae) has been commonly used in the traditional medicine in dysentery, diarrhoea and bellyache in china. in the present work, the methanol extract of jasminum amplexicaule (jme) was examined for pharmacology on human colonic epithelial cell line t84 by the short-circuit current technique. the results showed that pretreatment of t84 cells with jme produced a...

Diarrhoea is a universal human experience. It is both a symptom and a sign. On symptoms it is defined as abnormal passage of three or more loose or liquid stools per day. As a sign, diarrhoea is an increase in stool weight (or volume) of more than 200 grams (or mL) per 24 hours on a Western diet. Previous studies have suggested that stool weight is higher in Indians, and the upper limit of norm...

BACKGROUND Prospective studies to document the occurrence of canine diarrhoea and vomiting are relatively scarce in dogs, and the majority of published studies are based on information from clinical records. This study investigates the incidence risk of diarrhoea and vomiting as well as potential risk factors. METHODS A cohort study of 585 privately owned dogs of four breeds: Newfoundland, La...

This paper is a prospective study of patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection and chronic diarrhoea for which no cause could be found after extensive investigations, including examination of multiple stool specimens for all known faecal pathogens and the histological examination of small and large bowel biopsy specimens. Of 39 such patients recruited from 155 prospectively ...

To investigate an association between diarrhoea and malaria in children, a study was conducted in Buea on 215 children ranging from 0 - 5 years of age attending the Buea District hospital as out patients. Out of this number 118 (54.9/ ) had acute diarrhoea. The control group without diarrhoea comprised 97 children. Thick blood smears were examined to detect malaria parasites. The prevalence of ...

BACKGROUND Children in low-income settings suffering from frequent diarrhoea episodes are also at a high risk of acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI). We explored whether this is due to common risk factors for both conditions or whether diarrhoea can increase the risk of ALRI directly. METHODS We used a dynamic time-to-event analysis of data from two large child studies in low-income set...

To evaluate whether, at the community level, diarrhoea is a major cause of malnutrition or inversely whether the association between diarrhoea and growth retardation can be explained by a higher susceptibility of malnourished children to diarrhoea, all recent studies examining the relationship between diarrhoea and malnutrition in the community were reviewed. It was determined, for each of thes...

BACKGROUND The role of diarrhoea in the aetiology of growth retardation in young children remains controversial. To evaluate this, a population-based, longitudinal study of young children aged 6-48 months was conducted in Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh, between May 1988 and April 1989. METHODS Data obtained from 584 children were examined by one-year (n = 412) and 3-month (n = 1220) growt...