Acute diarrhoea in childhood

Childhood Pneumonia and Diarrhoea

Acute diarrhoea in adults

Firstly, the planners, the economists, the actuaries, and the lawyers have to sit down with tne doctors and devise a new format, shorn of expensive bureaucracy, which is more efficient, competitive, and, in the long run, cheaper. This then has to be sold up-hill to those who will fear losing their mess of pottage in any transition, and this would obviously mean many of the senior doctors approa...

Malaria parasitaemia in childhood diarrhoea in Nigeria

Records of 402 children--2l6 (53.7%) males and l86 (46.3%) females--aged 1-36 month(s), admitted to the Diarrhoea Treatment and Training Unit of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin city, Nigeria, during July 1993-June 1996, were reviewed to document the relationship between dehydration and malaria parasitaemia. There was a significant association between severity of dehydration and...

Seasonal plasma electrolyte fluctuations in childhood diarrhoea.

A retrospective analysis of routinely collected data from a diarrhoea rehydration unit found clinically meaningful parallel seasonal variation in plasma sodium and potassium concentrations. The prevalence of severe hypokalaemia was 7.2% and 0.4% in February and August respectively, and of severe hypernatraemia 0.4% and 5.0% respectively. These unexpected findings need prospective confirmation a...

Gut hormones in acute diarrhoea.

The gut hormone response to a breakfast meal was studied in 12 subjects hospitalised for an episode of acute diarrhoea (presumed infective) who were otherwise well and in 13 healthy control subjects. Fasting blood glucose concentrations were low but basal insulin concentrations were raised. Basal concentrations of pancreatic polypeptide and both basal and postprandial responses of motilin, ente...