In 1978 almost 200 000 Burmese refugees entered Bangladesh. Thirteen camps were set up for refugees. Data for the camp at Leda is presented here. There were four medical clinics; including a diarrhoea clinic operated by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. The four clinics recorded a total of 174 201 visits by the refugees, of which 28% were for watery diarrhoea...

Symplocos Racemosa (Roxb.) known in Hindi as Lodhra, is a common indigenous drug used by Ayurvedic practitioners for the treatment of diarrhoea. dysentery, liver diseases etc. (Chopra,1958, Nadkarni, 1954). Although it is a popular drug, no scientific investigation has been done to elucidate its pharmacological actions. This communication embodies the findings of a preliminary phytochemical and...

Escherichia coli O157:H7 has been implicated in diarrhoea, dysentery, haemorrhagic colitis and uraemic haemolytic syndrome but is not routinely cultured in laboratories. We tested 322 samples from children referred with diarrhoea to a clinic in Zahedan, Islamic Republic of Iran. There were 21 sorbitol-negative E. coli isolated; serotyping revealed 4 strains positive for O157, out of which only ...

Materials and Methods Diarrhoeal disease is a potential cause of morbidity and mortality especially in children and young animals in the developing countries [1]. Traditional medicinal plants are widely employed in most developing countries for treating diarrhoea [2]. Treatment of diarrhoea is generally non-specific and usually aimed at reducing the discomfort and inconvenience of frequent bowe...

The aim of this study was to examine changes in the systemic immune response during the incubation period and following the onset of clinical swine dysentery, including the recovery period. Ten healthy conventional pigs were inoculated with Brachyspira hyodysenteriae. Blood was sampled at pre-inoculation, at days 4 and 14 post-inoculation, during the first 4 days with clinical signs of dysenter...

BACKGROUND Shigella infections are a leading cause of diarrhoeal death among children in low-income and middle-income countries. WHO guidelines reserve antibiotics for treating children with dysentery. Reliance on dysentery for identification and management of Shigella infection might miss an opportunity to reduce Shigella-associated morbidity and mortality. We aimed to systematically review an...

Diarrhoea is the passage of loose stools so frequently as to cause annoyance. To some patients, four bowel actions a day is an intolerable nuisance, some are much more stoical, while others complain freely when the inconvenience is less. The severity of Pain, urgency and tenesmus accompanying the diarrhoea often determines whether 1 patient seeks medical help or not. By persistent diarrhoea is ...

Abstract Background The plant Hymenocardia acida (Euphorbiaceae) is utilized as herbal preparation against diarrhoea, dysentery and other diseases. We aimed to determine the antidiarrhoeal potentials of (MEHA) stem bark in vivo vitro. Preliminary phytochemical contents, well acute toxicity effect extract, were investigated based on standard experimental methods. properties MEHA at 150, 300 600 ...

The selected plant Alternenthera sessilis (L.), Houttuynia cordata (Thunb) Murraya koenigii (L.) and Ziziphus oenoplia (L) Miller has been used traditionally in Assam, India for the treatment of diarrhoea and dysentery. However, the claims need to be validated by a suitable experimental model. Therefore, the present study was under taken to evaluate the effect of 50% methanol extracts of Altern...

Holarrhena antidysenterica belongs to the Apocynaceae family and is generally known as kurchi in Hindi. It a small deciduous tree found arid woods throughout world including India. H. Antidysenterica commonly used Indian traditional medicine treat Inflammatory Bowel disease, dysentery, diarrhoea worms intestines. Plant parts like bark are useful antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory analgesic treatm...