Smectite for acute infectious diarrhoea in children

2. Acute infectious diarrhoea and dehydration in children.

Gastroenteritis in children is still a common reason for consulting a general practitioner and for hospital admission. Rotavirus is the most common cause of gastroenteritis in children and accounts for half of all hospital admissions for severe acute infectious diarrhoea. Most children with gastroenteritis do not develop dehydration and can be treated at home. Children with mild to moderate deh...

Antidiarrhoeal drugs for acute diarrhoea in children.

Probiotics for infectious diarrhoea.

The modern view of probiotic therapy derives from the concept of a well functioning gut barrier and a normal balanced microbiota. The scientific conception of these host defences has changed; the gut barrier was seen primarily as a physical blockade to foreign antigen entry until its active role in shaping the immune response to luminal antigens was deciphered. Concomitantly, recent experimenta...

Infectious diarrhoea.

Infectious diarrhoea is the second most common cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The WHO estimates that about 2.5 million people die annually as a result of infectious diarrhoea, most of them children!. In 2002 about 1.6 million children under the age of five in developing countries died from diarrhoeal disease. In the United States between 211375 million episodes of diarrhoeal diseas...

Zinc supplementation in children with acute diarrhoea.

BACKGROUND In Nigeria, diarrhoeal disease is second only to malaria as a cause of death the under 5 age group. This study was aimed at assessing the benefit or otherwise of zinc supplement in acute diarrhoea. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This was a multi-centred randomized double blind controlled study. Children with acute diarrhoea aged between 6 and 24 months were randomized into zinc supplemented ...