Background: Zinc is essential for nucleic acid metabolism, protein synthesis and tissue healing. Zinc deficiency has detrimental effects on child health and increases mortality rate of pneumonia and gastroenteritis. By improving absorptive function of villous cells and by reducing pathogenic enterobacteriaceae in lumen, Zinc improves diarrhea outcome in children. Previous studies in developing ...

Background: Excessive and irrational use of antibiotics in the treatment of acute diarrhea has caused increased resistance to these medications. It is well defined that most cases of diarrhea in children do not require the use of antibiotics. This study was aimed to determine the status of antibiotic administration for treatment of acute diarrhea in children younger than five years. All who adm...

As can be seen from the above 2 quotations, although diarrhea is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, it is often not given the respect it deserves. Diarrhea and fecal incontinence are extraordinarily common in the nursing home. Diarrhea is a significant cause of increased expenditures in the nursing home because of nursing time and laundry expenses. Most deaths from diarrhea occur in olde...

conclusions rice soup regimen was highly effective and inexpensive in the treatment of acute diarrhea in children. thus, in addition to the common treatment by g-ors, rice soup can be consumed simultaneously with g-ors. results at the end of study, the time for treating acute watery diarrhea in the intervention and control groups were 21.10 ± 8.81 and 34.55 ± 5.82 hours (p < 0.001) and hospital...

aeromonas hydrophila is a causative agent of a number of human infections. aeromonads have been isolated from patients with diarrhea. in spite of a number of virulence factors produced by aeromonas species, their association with diarrheal diseases has not been clearly linked. in current study, 1546 fecal samples of a randomly selected population were screened for presence of a. hydrophila. out...

results sequence analysis indicated that echovirus shared the highest nucleotide identity (85%) with the ev92 strain isolated from the rhesus macaques with gastroenteritis from a us primate center. phylogenetic analysis showed that the ev92 isolated in this study had clustered together with other echoviruses isolated from the primates. conclusions the results suggested that ev92 as a new echovi...

Several methodological issues may have an impact on the incidence rates of childhood acute diarrhea reported by community-based studies. This study was performed to assess the impact of parental recall ability and definition of diarrhea on the estimate of incidence of acute diarrhea. Eighty-four children younger than 40 months were randomly selected and visited every other day for four weeks an...

background: rotavirus is one of the most common etiologic agent of severe acute diarrhea in infants and children which results in high mortality and morbidity globally. prophylactic strategies are required to prevent acute rotavirus diarrhea. recently, the beneficial effect of probiotic therapy in control of rotavirus diarrhea was noted in many investigations. this systematic review investigate...

The evaluation of the patient with diarrhea can be complex and the treatment challenging. In this article, the definition of diarrhea and the pathophysiologic mechanisms that lead to diarrhea are reviewed. A simplified 5-step approach to the patient with diarrhea is provided and applied in a case-oriented manner applicable to everyday clinical practice. On completion of this article, you should...

Ganglioneuroma is a very rare cause of chronic diarrhea in children. This benign tumor usually presents with diarrhea and failure to thrive. It is necessary for physicians to be familiar with this rare cause of chronic diarrhea. Here we present and discuss such a case.