Effect of zinc supplementation started
during diarrhoea on morbidity and mortality in Bangladeshi children: community randomised trial.
Banana is an easy to digest food and helps to replace lost sodium and potassium
during diarrhoea.
DD offers practical advice on feeding
during diarrhoea.
The scientific rationale for ORT, and for continued feeding
during diarrhoea, has been established beyond doubt: The challenge now is to place that knowledge in the hands of parents so that they themselves can protect their children against the dehydration and malnutrition caused by childhood's most common disease.
People do not understand that fluids are needed
during diarrhoea - they believe that giving a child more to drink will only increase the diarrhoea.
Older children If an infant is aged four months or older and is already taking soft or solid foods, these should continue to be given
during diarrhoea.
The following traditional remedies make highly effective oral rehydration solutions and are suitable drinks to prevent a child from losing too much liquid
during diarrhoea:
Thousands of deaths could be averted through a combined prevention and treatment strategy — interventions such as improved mother and child nutrition, optimal breastfeeding practices; Oral Rehydration Therapy [ORT]; new low - osmolarity formulations of ORS; incorporating rotavirus vaccines; zinc supplementation
during diarrhoea episodes; immunizing all children against measles; appropriate drug therapy; increased access to safe clean water and sanitation facilities and improved personal and domestic hygiene, including keeping food and water clean and washing hands before touching food.
Continue to feed the child, to prevent malnutrition Feeding should be continued
during diarrhoea and increased afterwards.
Infants often continue with breastmilk while refusing other foods, especially non-human milk,
during diarrhoea.
Constant breastfeeding
during diarrhoea shortens its duration.
The consumption of breastmilk
during diarrhoea is maintained while that of other foods is often reduced.
Rapid dehydration The physiological characteristics of the newborn baby or «neonate» result in more rapid dehydration
during diarrhoea than occurs with older infants.
Regular radio broadcasts include traditional songs, drama and popular personalities to explain the dangers of dehydration and to stress the importance of breastfeeding
during diarrhoea.
Not exact matches
«We are supplying milk for the UNICEF coordinated breastfeeding missions, for orphaned infants, infants with
diarrhoea / dehydration in a few hospitals, for mothers who drip the milk on their breasts
during relactation procedures and mothers of twins who need a boost of milk,» Silvestre said.
Nothing that I've read mentions having
diarrhoea during pregnancy, only ways to avoid constipation.
Apart from helping to prevent dehydration, breastfeeding is beneficial
during and after
diarrhoea.
The growing consensus is that the greatest nutritional threat to children occurs
during the period from about 6 to about 24 months of age, which is when infectious disease rates, particularly for
diarrhoea, are highest.
Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) is the process of replacing essential body fluids and salts that a child loses in critical quantities
during attacks of
diarrhoea.
Infants who are fed only breastmilk
during the first 6 months seldom get
diarrhoea.
However, in contrast to fluid replacement, nutritional management of
diarrhoea requires good feeding practices both
during the illness and between episodes of
diarrhoea, when the child is not sick.
Can the risk of persistent
diarrhoea be reduced by appropriate feeding and the use of cereal - based oral rehydration solutions, rather than standard ORS,
during acute
diarrhoea?
Exclusive breastfeeding reduces infant mortality due to common childhood illnesses such as
diarrhoea or pneumonia, and helps for a quicker recovery
during illness.
In addition, absorption of nutrients may also be reduced by as much as a third
during acute
diarrhoea.
Does the type of micro-organism present in the small intestine or stool culture
during acute
diarrhoea determine whether the illness will become prolonged?
This takes place in a number of ways: the child loses its appetite and eats less; parents may withhold food from the sick child; nutrients are poorly absorbed by the intestines
during and after the
diarrhoea episode; and body tissues are broken down metabolically.
Proper choice of diet requires understanding the digestive capacity
during persistent
diarrhoea.
Although the benefits of continued breastfeeding in persistent
diarrhoea have not been determined, it is recommended that breastfeeding be maintained
during such episodes.
Feeding advice The need to promote optimal nutritional intake
during and immediately after episodes of
diarrhoea was stressed.
Students as communicators
During a recent epidemic of
diarrhoea in our state the Indian Medical Association obtained a donation of two tons of glucose, plastic packing material and printed instructions.
Studies from various developing countries have shown that between three and 20 per cent of episodes of acute
diarrhoea become persistent, and up to one half of all
diarrhoea - associated deaths occur
during episodes of persistent
diarrhoea.
Bimuno ® pastilles can help with the symptoms of travellers»
diarrhoea if taken before &
during travel.
Clinical signs of pyometra present after four to eight weeks after estrus (heat);
during estrus the cervix is open as the female is looking to accept a mate, this is the time that an infectious agent (usually E. coli) infect the uterus; if the
diarrhoea has been occurring for more than four weeks, it is possible that it may have contributed to the pyometra, but usually pyometra is caused by bacteria from the urinary tract or normal vaginal flora.
If Dutchess doesn't present any other symptoms (vomiting,
diarrhoea, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, behavioural changes) it would be safe to monitor her progress and have the hernia repaired at six months of age
during spaying; if she does present with new symptoms, visit your Veterinarian immediately.