A community‐based longitudinal study of acute and persistent diarrhoea in 705 children less
than five years old was carried out for a year in a rural area of Bangladesh. Diarrhoea …

Acute diarrheal disease with its accompanying dehydration has remained a challenging
problem to the medical profession and the community in the third world countries especially …

Aim of the study To estimate the prevalence of acute diarrhoea in children under 5 years in a
rural population and to study the different modalities of treatment adopted by the mother and …

Diarrheal diseases in the pediatric population are a major cause of morbidity and mortality.
In the United States, children under 5 years of age average two episodes of diarrhea per …

Background About 2 million episodes of diarrhoea occur each year in India. Of the 6.6
million deaths among children aged 28 days to 5 year; deaths from diarrhoea are estimated …

This study was conducted to assess the magnitude of the problem of diarrhea and time of
initiation of its management in under five children of different socio economic status, in an …

Background: Diarrhea still continues to be a leading cause of childhood morbidity and
mortality and holds the second rank (after pneumonia) for mortality in children< 5 years of …

More than one billion diarrhea episodes occur every year among children younger than 5
years of age in socioeconomically developing countries causing 2 to 2.5 million deaths …

The study documents the incidence of persistent diarrhoea and its sociodemographic,
household, environmental and clinical risk factors. One hundred and fifty-two newborns …

This study was conducted in children under the age of four years for a period of one year. By
domiciliary visits the diarrheal episodes were recorded, analysed and presented. The …