BACKGROUND Diarrhoea, a common disease, is one of the major determinants of childhood morbidity and mortality in Nepal. METHOD This cross-sectional survey used a self-designed and pretested structured questionnaire to gather data on mothers' knowledge about childhood diarrhoea. The study was conducted in the Morang district of Nepal from June to August 2010. Data was analysed using descriptiv...

Introduction. Nigeria is one of the five countries that account for about 50% of under-five mortality in the world. The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge and practice of child survival strategies among rural community caregivers in Cross River State of Nigeria. Materials and Methods. This descriptive cross-sectional survey used a pretested questionnaire to obtain information f...

Diarrhea is the leading cause of morbidity and death in developing Countries) "3 Even in developed countries Such as the United States, approximately 500 diarrheal deaths occur each year, and approximately 200,000 persons are hospitalized each year for diarrheal illnesses. 4 Thus diarrheal diseases are a considerable disease burden and cause economic loss in both developed and developing countr...

The dehydration tests were conducted at three drying methods to evaluate the drying curves and the energy uptake. Apple (Malus domestica L.) cubes were dried under different processing conditions applying freeze drying (FD), freeze drying assisted by hot air and freeze drying assisted by infrared radiation. Control samples were produced using regular freeze drying without the pre-drying. Hot ai...

this study was carried out on 1330 infants, from one to 24 months old, suffering from diarrhoea and moderate to severe dehydration who were hospitalized in bahrami childrens' hospital over a period of eleven months. fifteen percent of them had signs of shock and 36% had marasmus. nine percent of treated children required readmission to hospital within 24 hours of discharge and 8% were hospitali...

We have examined 20 SC patients on Percoll-Stractan continuous density gradients and find that they have an elevated mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC). Reduction of the MCHC to normal values results in amelioration of four physiologically important blood abnormalities: decreased oxygen affinity, viscosity of deoxygenated erythrocyte suspensions, rate of sickling, and deoxygenatio...

INTRODUCTION Hypernatremia (serum sodium ≥ 150 mmol/L) is one of the most life-threatening complications of childhood diarrhea, and its management remains challenging, even in a highly advanced critical care setting. This case report describes the acute clinical course and 3-month neurological follow-up after discharge of an infant with extreme hypernatremia in an intensive care unit in Dhaka, ...

Plants of Boea hygroscopica F. Muell were dehydrated to 9% relative water content (RWC) by withholding water for 26 d, and afterward the plants were rehydrated. Leaves were taken from control plants after 7, 12, and 26 d from the beginning of dehydration, and after 6 and 48 h from rehydration. The RWC decreased by 80% during dehydration, but the leaves regained RWC with rehydration. Dehydrated ...

Desiccation presents a major challenge for the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica. In this study, we use proteomic profiling to evaluate protein changes in the larvae elicited by dehydration and rehydration. Larvae were desiccated at 75% relative humidity (RH) for 12 h to achieve a body water loss of 35%, approximately half of the water that can be lost before the larvae succumb to dehydration...

We studied cFos and FosB staining in the supraoptic nucleus (SON) the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis (OVLT) and the median preoptic nucleus (MnPO) in adult male rats after water deprivation (24 h, n = 11; 48 h, n = 12) and water deprivation with rehydration (22 h + water, n = 11; 46 h + water, n = 10). Control rats (n = 15) had water available ad libitum. Separate sets of serial se...