Even so, the effect of
controlling diarrheal signs does not appear to diminish with time, and thus there is no need to increase the dosage of the medication.
Not exact matches
Reproduced from the PATH Resources for
Diarrheal Disease
Control website at www.eddcontrol.org, [6 November, 2009].
«Meta studies have shown that the
controlled grafting of fecal transplantation from healthy donors is a safe and very effective treatment of acute
diarrheal diseases caused by the pathogenic bacterium Clostridium difficile,» said Sieglinde Angelberger, gastroenterologist at the University Clinic for Internal Medicine III of the Medical University of Vienna and author of the study: «this was the reason why we applied this therapy for the treatment of patients with chronic intestinal diseases.»
Patients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) are twice as likely to be readmitted to the hospital as patients without the deadly
diarrheal infection, according to a study published in the April issue of the American Journal of Infection
Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection
Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
Sur, D., Gupta, D. N., Mondal, S. K., Ghosh, S., Manna, B., Rajendran, K., and Bhattacharya, S. K. Impact of zinc supplementation on
diarrheal morbidity and growth pattern of low birth weight infants in kolkata, India: a randomized, double - blind, placebo -
controlled, community - based study.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that as high as 50 percent of international travelers suffer some form of traveler's diarrhea and
diarrheal diseases account for 1 in 9 child deaths worldwide, making diarrhea the second leading cause of death for children under the age of five.