The purpose of this study has been to evaluate various factors influencing prognosis in children with hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS). Forty children with classical picture of HUS were seen in 1986-1 991. Boys and girls were equally affected, aged from two months to ten years. In 35 patients (87.5%) there was a history of diarrhea which was bloody in25. All were treated with peritoneal dial...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that selected strains of lactobacilli that are administered orally result in a modest reduction of diarrhea duration. However, duration alone is not considered optimal for therapeutic evaluation of any agent in diarrhea. OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of a new probiotic, Lactobacillus paracasei strain ST11 (ST11), in acute childhood diarrhea by using ev...

The objective of this study was to evaluate an algorithm for the management of children with persistent/chronic diarrhea at a community level hospital. The study was carried out in the pediatric OPD of a 150 bed trust hospital catering to children from poor, rural and urban slums. Fifty clinically stable children (6 months-5 years old, mean = 19.7 months) with persistent or chronic diarrhea ref...

background: to assess the therapeutic effects of oral zinc supplementation on acute watery diarrhea of children with moderate dehydration. methods: all 9-month to 5-year-old children who were admitted with acute watery diarrhea and moderate dehydration to the children ward of motahari hospital, urmia, iran in 2008 were recruited. after the application of the inclusion and exclusion criteria, th...

In 1976, Jon Rohde, highlighting the importance of diarrhea as a prime killer of children in the developing world, beckoned the scientific community to "take science where the diarrhea is!" [1]. While researchers were discovering many new etiologic agents that cause diarrhea, progress in preventing diarrheal deaths-then estimated at about 5 million per yearwas slow. Twenty years later, despite ...

Dhingra U, Kisenge R, Sudfeld CR, P, Somji S, Dutta A, et al. Lower-Dose Zinc for Childhood Diarrhea - A Randomized, Multicenter Trial. N Engl J Med 2020;383:1231-41. Among children with diarrhea, what is the clinical efficacy of lower-dose zinc, compared to standard-dose in decreasing diarrhea and emesis – latter associated zinc? Non-inferior, randomized, controlled, double-blind study. India ...

From May to August 1999, we evaluated 401 patients from a pediatric hospital of Havana City. One group was composed of 113 patients with diarrhea admitted to the Gastroenterology ward and a second consisted of 288 patients without diarrhea, admitted for other reasons, and hospitalized within the same time period. Three stool samples were collected from each child and were examined using three p...