The aim of the study was to determine the perceptions of mothers regarding the causes and management of diarrhoea of their children aged 0-24 months. In Enugu State, Nigeria, 80 market women whose children had diarrhoea during last 6 months were interviewed fortnightly. When possible, the children were observed to determine the types of diarrhoea and treatments given. Fifty-three of the women b...

The aim of the study was to determine the perceptions of mothers regarding the causes and management of diarrhoea of their children aged 0-24 months. In Enugu State, Nigeria, 80 market women whose children had diarrhoea during last 6 months were interviewed fortnightly. When possible, the children were observed to determine the types of diarrhoea and treatments given. Fifty-three of the women b...

Jasminum amplexicaule Buch.-Ham. (Oleaceae) has been commonly used in the traditional medicine in dysentery, diarrhoea and bellyache in China. In the present work, the methanol extract of Jasminum amplexicaule (JME) was examined for pharmacology on human colonic epithelial cell line T84 by the short-circuit current technique. The results showed that pretreatment of T84 cells with JME produced a...

volume of a series, consists of two parts?an essay on the effects of health and disease on military and naval operations and a dissertation on the influence of drinking water in originating or propagating enteric fever, diarrhoea, dysentery and cholera. The essay was submitted in competition for the medal founded by the Statistical Society in memory of the philanthropist John Howard. It constit...

possible improvement in the accuracy and completeness of registration, but the difference is too material and marked to be explained by such a hypothesis. The increase is apparent under all the diseases specified in the Health Officer's tables save one. Under fevers the numbers are 1,272 against 929; chclera 475 against 644 ; bowel complaints, (dysentery and diarrhoea) 570 against 453 ; small-p...

A radiological study o f the small intestine o f 17 untreated patients in the acute phase ofschistosomiasis was performed. Twelve patients (70% o f total) had alterations: nine had clear-cut thickening o f the duodenal and jejunal folds, one flocculation, one fragmentation and one thickening o f mucosae, flocculation and fragmentation o f the barium column. There was no correlation o f the gast...

nor simply of reading English medical books, but it was the result of careful and actual observations of the effects of the American drug on patients treated in the Lahore College Hospital. Here I found that, though the gastric sufferings of a majority of patients after taking ipecacuanha were often great in spite of all precautious taken to prevent them, they were more than amply compensated b...

Severe diarrhoea in patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is usually a manifestation of gastrointestinal infection by a variety of organisms. We report a patient with low CD4 T cell counts who developed ulcerative colitis after amoebic dysentery. He subsequently developed acute ulcerative colitis with toxic dilatation while he was severely immunocompromised. He responded ...

INTRODUCTION Salmonella and Shigella are members of the Enterobacteriaceae family and are non-lactose fermenting (NLF) Gram-negative bacilli causing gastrointestinal illness in humans and are primarily acquired through ingestion of contaminated food and water (1). Salmonella can cause enteritis or enteric fever and the severity of disease depends on the inoculating dose, serotype and predisposi...