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Acute gastroenteritis commonly causes diarrhea and vomiting in children and adolescents, resulting in many outpatient clinic visits, emergency department visits and hospitalizations, often owing to dehydration that results from persistent diarrhea and vomiting. The use of antiemetics (medications that prevent...
The authors noted that while antiemetic drugs are not recommended for treatment of acute gastroenteritis (GE) in children, some providers prescribe them to children with GE. Many drugs have been used for this purpose over the years, withpromethazinebeing the most common. However, the US Food and...
Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) are usually caused by viruses, especially Rotavirus and Norovirus. Among the bacterial causes, very few warrant antibiotic treatment, mainly Shigella, Vibrio cholerae, Campylobacter (only for severe cases, particularly in the initial phase) and severe cases of Salmonella infe...
Although most people with gastroenteritis require no formal treatment, the key to a more rapid and safe recovery is good hydration. Home treatment consists of adequate fluid intake so that dehydration is prevented. The recommended fluids are clear fluids (Pedialyte, especially for young children, Gat...
viral gastroenteritis cases, whileRotavirus, Astrovirus,Adenovirus, and Sapovirusstrainscause most of the other viral gastroenteritis infections. Norovirus also was listed as the leading cause of gastroenteritis in children under 5 years old according to the Centers for Disease Control andPrevention(CDC)...
A guideline for the anthroposophic treatment of acute gastroenteritis in children has already recently been published.26 Thus, the aim of this manuscript is to provide clinical recommendation for the anthroposophic treatment of acute bronchitis in children. For this, we used an online-based Delphi ...
Patients 2 years of age and older previously treated with cysteamine:vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain, headache, conjunctivitis, influenza, gastroenteritis, nasopharyngitis, dehydration, ear infection, upper respiratory tract infection, fatigue, arthralgia, cough, and pain in extremity. ...
In this setting, norovirus causes 18% of childhood gastroenteritis in children less than five years of age (Ahmed et al., 2014). Screening for norovirus in foods and water only occurs once a link with a possible food- or water-borne contamination is suspected to be the cause of infections...
Influenza viruses do not cause stomach flu (gastroenteritis). Another name problem is with the condition called swine flu. Swine flu is a flu-like illness that usually infects pigs, but the term swine flu was applied to a flu strain that also could infect humans (H1N1). In 2018-19, the...