Acute gastroenteritis is associated with high mortality in childhood. A complication of the illness is dehydration, which should be well managed. This study aimed to analyze the effect of metoclopramide on the number of vomiting episodes in moderately dehydrated children with acute gastroenteritis. In this single-blinded clinical trial, 240 children of 1 to 7 years old with acute viral gastroen...

background rotaviruses are the most common cause of viral gastroenteritis in newborns and young children. the current study intended to investigate the presence of rotavirus antigen in fecal specimens of children with acute diarrhea, to determine its prevalence and to examine its distribution pattern by age, gender and season. objectives this was a retrospective investigation of cases with rota...

A prospective study was performed on a large outpatient population to evaluate the epidemiology and pathogenicity of Blastocystis hominis. Patients with stool specimens positive for B. hominis and negative for other bacterial and parasitic pathogens were sent a questionnaire and were requested to submit a follow-up specimen for ova-and-parasite examination. B. hominis was identified in 530 of 1...

Campylobacter jejuni is a prominent bacterial cause of human gastroenteritis. Campylobacteriosis outbreaks reported were related to the ingestion contaminated food. Meat are be frequently infected with C. jejuni. It well recognized that one main causes gastroenteritis in humans, and poultry meat source. A number studies several countries have shown occurrence animal farms, slaughterhouses, meat...

aim & background : enterococci infections are public health growing concern due to the glycopeptide antibiotics resistance especially vancomycin. genes, vana, b, and h, are contributed to the influence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (vre). this investigation aims at exploring the vre frequency and the rate of each genes in isolated enterococci from gastroenteritis patients in central regio...

OBJECTIVE To study the molecular epidemiological characteristics of Norovirus gastroenteritis outbreaks in Zhejiang. METHODS During January 2006 and December 2007, fecal specimens of patients collected from outbreaks of acute viral gastroenteritis were tested for Norovirus. Epidemiological data were also collected. Noroviruses were detected by a reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction...

BACKGROUND Gastroenteritis and respiratory tract infections are the most common childhood diseases. Despite the common use of vitamin B6 to control vomiting in children with gastroenteritis, no study has been performed in this field. This study aimed to assess the value of vitamin B6 in the prevention of vomiting in patients with mild to moderate gastroenteritis. METHODOLOGY This study was a ...

Sir, Recommendations for the treatment of gastroenteritis in children have stressed the importance of oral rehydration solutions and withdrawal of milk feeds for 24 hours in bottle fed infants.' The use of antibiotics should be limited to specific indications such as giardiasis or shigellosis, and antidiarrhoeal agents should be avoided as they are ineffective and may be harmful.2 In view of th...

The United Kingdom (UK) added rotavirus (RV) vaccine (Rotarix GlaxoSmithKline) to the national vaccine schedule in July 2013. During the 2012-2014 rotavirus seasons, children presenting to the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children Emergency Department with gastroenteritis symptoms had stool virology analysis (real-time PCR) and clinical outcome recorded. Nosocomial cases were identified as patien...