BACKGROUND Diarrhea remains a high burden disease, responsible for nine percent of deaths in children under five globally. We analyzed diarrhea management practices in young children and their association with the source of care. METHODS We used Demographic and Health Survey data from 12 countries in sub-Saharan Africa with high burdens of childhood diarrhea. We classified the quality of diar...

BACKGROUND Acute diarrhea in children leads to dehydration and death if not appropriately managed. World Health Organization (WHO) recommends treating diarrhea with oral rehydration therapy (ORT), fluids and foods. Proper management is hinged on accurate assessment of patients to identify the acute watery diarrhea. OBJECTIVE To compare the knowledge and attitude of community pharmacists in th...

OBJECTIVE To compare the frequency and etiology of diarrhea in children aged less than 2 years with known HIV status. METHODS This was a nested cohort study, whereby children were followed during monthly routine and unscheduled visits. The HIV status of children was determined with PCR. A stool culture was obtained from children with diarrhea. A subset of stool samples was examined for parasi...

In the selection of snacks there are influencing factors, namely external and internal factors. Food contaminated with pathogenic bacteria poses a risk health problems such as digestive disorders diarrhea. This type research is quantitative research. The sampling technique in this study was carried out using total method.The population MDTA Al-Hamid children totaling 30 respondents, which study...

During April 2007-April 2010, surveillance physicians in adult and pediatric medicine wards of three tertiary public hospitals in Bangladesh identified patients who developed hospital-acquired diarrhea. We calculated incidence of hospital-acquired diarrhea. To identify risk factors, we compared these patients to randomly selected patients from the same wards who were admitted > 72 hours without...

background diarrhea is the most frequent health problem among children in developing countries. defining the etiology of acute diarrhea is critical to disease therapy and prevention. some anaerobic bacteria such as enterotoxigenic bacteroides fragilis (etbf) strains cause diarrheal disease by production of enterotoxin in children less than 5 years old. objectives this study aimed to evaluate th...

introduction: in developing countries, rotaviral diarrhea is the cause of death of many children, and is the main etiology of gastroenteritis in children under 2 years old. determination of the prevalence of rotaviral infection can reveal the impact of this infection in this group of the population and provides clues as to the strategies for prevention and treatment protocols for children suffe...

The prevalence of Adenovirus was determined among children with gastroenteritis/ diarrhea in Warri, Southern, Nigeria. Adenovirus was detected using a lateral flow immunochromatographic test kit (Gastro Vir-Strip, Coris Bioconcept, Belgium). The prevalence of Adenovirus was 11 (14.7%) and there were no association with age and gender of subjects. There is need for routine screening of Adenoviru...

Children with diarrhea hospitalized for respiratory distress often have fatal outcome in resource-limited settings, although data are lacking on risk factors for death in such children. We sought to evaluate clinical predictors for death in such children. In this prospective cohort study, we enrolled under-5 children with diarrhea admitted with severe respiratory distress to the intensive care ...