conclusions the high incidence density of diarrhea among the children recruited in this study indicates the need for educational programs directed at people who are involved in this issue. results the incidence of acute diarrhea among the 0 - 1-year-old children was 26.7 cases per 1,000 children per month. independent risk factors for the occurrence of diarrhea were maternal age under 20 years ...

background and objective: despite consistent evidence that probiotics reduce the duration of diarrhea, there is only weak evidence for their efficacy in reducing the duration of hospitalization. another source of heteroge-neity for probiotic trials is the type of probiotic being assessed; also, information about combined products is scarce. methods: this is a randomized, single-blind controlled...

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...

background recently cryptosporidium has gained much attention as a clinically human pathogen in immunocompromised cases and young children. this study investigated frequency and risk factors related to cryptosporidiosis in under 5–year old children. patients and methods stools were examined by elisa method to detect cryptosporidium surface antigen (csa) using remel prospect cryptosporidium (mon...

background : cryptosporidium is an intracellular apicomplexan parasite that infects a wide range of vertebrates including humans. cryptosporidiosis is a major cause of diarrhea in children with and without human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection in developing countries. more recently, the molecular methods for identification of morphologically indistin­guishable species have been developed...

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.

background: probiotic therapies with different strains demonstrated some beneficial effects, although some studies did not show any significant effects. this study assessed systematically the current knowledge on the effect of probiotic bacteria on duration of in acute rotavirus diarrhea in children compared with control. methods: the pubmed, cochrane controlled trial register (cctr) and ovid (...

rotavirus is a common infection causing 450,000 deaths annually primarily in children 5 years and below. despite the high burden of disease, little is known about the epidemiology of rotavirus in libya. the aim of this study was to estimate the rotavirus disease burden among libyan children.a cross-sectional study was carried out prospectively among children 5 years old and below between august...

background: to determine the risk factor for acute diarrhea disease in children. methods: in the survey, 220 cases and 220 controls were involved. cases were children with loose watery feces, pathologically diagnosed as acute diarrhea by the physician, and enrolled from the emergency ward as the incident cases in dr. sheykh hospital, mashhad, northeast of iran. control group too, was enrolled f...