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...
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...
Acupuncture is successfully used to alleviate vomiting in children after general anesthesia. However there is no data on treatment of vomiting in children with gastroenteritis (GE) and pneumonia (PM). Descriptive analysis of 18 cases, where acupuncture was used as an individual therapy attempt to tr...
Of the 30,849 patients seen foracute gastroenteritiswith dehydration, 57.2% were non-Hispanic black, 17.9% were non-Hispanic white, 12.5% were Hispanic, and 12.3% were other races. Adjusting for age, gender, language, insurance, and how sick a child was at presentation using triage acuity ra...
Acute infectious diarrhoea is a common problem with a wide spectrum of clinical severity in children. Replacing the fluid and electrolytes lost, preferably by using an oral rehydration solution, and continuing to feed the child with age-appropriate foods is the basis for the treatment of this dise...
A randomised, placebo-controlled trial of oral nitazoxanide for the empiric treatment of acute gastroenteritis among Australian Indigenous children,Telethon Kids Institute,Interventional,Phase 4
In most children, gastroenteritis symptoms are caused by rotavirus. The parents of a child infected with rotavirus often become ill as well. The rotavirus "season" is usually during October through April. The Norwalk Virus is another possible cause of infectious gastroenteritis. This may be transmit...
Gastroenteritis treatment tips The pivotal steps in determining the need for aggressive management of persistent diarrhea with or without vomiting are careful evaluation of the patient's symptoms, including their severity and duration, and a review of the history for the presence of serious concurrent ...
Alm of study: To determine the effectiveness and safety of a single probiotic strain, Lactobacillus reuteri ATCC 55730 U. reuteri), in trea-ting acute infectious diarrhoea in children using systematic review. Material and methods: MEDLINE, EMBASE, and The Cochrane Library (all up to January 2007...
Racecadotril is a guideline-recommended option for the treatment of acute diarrhea in children but existing guidelines and previous reviews of the field are based on a small fraction of published evidence. Therefore, we have performed a systematic search