Persistent diarrhea
Risk factors for persistent diarrhea
... with diarrhea, on the contrary, they have side effects that are dangerous and sometimes may be ...acute diarrhea in children. The previous episodes of acute and persistent diarrhea are ...
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A Meta-analysis of the Effects of Oral Zinc in the Treatment of Acute and Persistent Diarrhea
... of diarrhea and presence of diarrhea at days 1, 3, and 5) using similar patient characteristics (primarily children aged between 1 and 60 months), with either acute or persistent diar- rhea, ...
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Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli and Acute and Persistent Diarrhea in Returned Travelers
... and diarrhea was analyzed by multivariate analysis with logistic re- ...with diarrhea of less than 14 days of duration (P ⫽ ...with diarrhea re- mained after multivariate analysis (Table 5), which ...
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Immune Response of Children Who Develop Persistent Diarrhea following Rotavirus Infection
... (RV) diarrhea to assess whether nutritional and clinical parameters, RV serotypes, levels of interleukin-10 (IL-10), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF- ␣ ), and gamma interferon (IFN- ␥ ), and RV-specific antibody ...
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Dietary Management of Persistent Diarrhea: Comparison of a Traditional Rice-Lentil Based Diet with Soy Formula
... The majority (67%) of children in the study were younger than 15 months old and similar differences in weight gain, stool volume, and frequency were seen in this important subgroup... Th[r] ...
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Efficacy of Milk-based Diets in Persistent Diarrhea: A Randomized, Controlled Trial
... standard practice because of concern about increased stool output as a result of lactose malabsorption and the possibility of perpetuation of mucosal damage in those with milk protein al[r] ...
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PERSISTENT DIARRHEA AS THE PREDOMINANT SYMPTOM OF HIRSCHSPRUNG'S DISEASE (CONGENITAL DILATATION OF COLON)
... no fecal masses were palpable. Cultures of the stools yielded no pathogens; cultures of blood and spinal fluid were sterile. Roentgenograms made after a barium enema showed the colon to [r] ...
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Use of Oral Gentamicin, Metronidazole, and Cholestyramine in the Treatment of Severe Persistent Diarrhea in Infants
... As has been noted in a previous study, the greater the stool weight the poorer is apparent nitrogen and fat absorption.2 Nitrogen and fat absorption decreased by about 0.4% with each gra[r] ...
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Zinc Supplementation in Malnourished Children With Persistent Diarrhea in Pakistan
... Results. Of 87 children randomized for supplementa- tion with either zinc or placebo, the two groups were comparable at admission in terms of severity and dura- tion of diarrhea, as well as nutritional and ...
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Review: chronic and persistent diarrhea with a focus in the returning traveler
... of persistent/chronic diarrhea as a syndromic diagnosis in returning travelers while one study reported adequate denominator data to enable estimates of pathogen-specific etiology (Table ...for ...
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McKittrick–Wheelock syndrome presenting with dermatomyositis and rectal prolapse
... We present the case of a 69 year old Iraqi female patient who initially presented to the American University of Beirut Medical Center in February 2013 with recurrent episodes of fresh blood per rectum upon defecation. In ...
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Syndromic (phenotypic) diarrhea in early infancy
... Syndromic diarrhea (SD), also known as phenotypic diarrhea (PD) or tricho-hepato-enteric syndrome (THE), is a congenital enteropathy presenting with early-onset of severe diarrhea requiring ...
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Prospective Study of the Prevalence, Genotyping, and Clinical Relevance of Dientamoeba fragilis Infections in an Australian Population
... were diarrhea, abdominal pain, and loose bowel ...ic persistent symptoms were common, with 19/60 (32%) pa- tients having diarrhea of over 2 weeks in duration, and one patient claimed to have ...
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Syndromic diarrhea/Tricho-hepato-enteric syndrome
... Syndromic diarrhea/Tricho-hepato-enteric syndrome (SD/THE) is a rare and severe bowel disorder caused by mutation in SKIV2L or in TTC37, 2 genes encoding subunits of the putative human SKI ...intractable ...
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Acute Helicobacter pylori Infection Is Followed by an Increase in Diarrheal Disease Among Peruvian Children
... of diarrhea were higher in the 3 months after H pylori infection than in either the 3 months of the year before or after this period (Table ...analysis, diarrhea days (RR: ...
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Risk factors for poor outcome in community-onset Clostridium difficile infection
... of diarrhea before admission, abdominal pain, abdominal tender- ness, intensive care unit [ICU] admission), laboratory values (white blood cell [WBC] count, hemoglobin, cre- atinine, albumin, glucose), ...
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Controlled study of Escherichia coli diarrheal infections in Bangladeshi children
... with diarrhea overall and particularly in the first year of life (Table ...with diarrhea, all EPEC isolates were positive with both ...with diarrhea (30 of 451 patients positive versus 26 of 602 ...
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A qualitative study on experiences of mothers about control of diarrhoea of their children
... Background: Diarrheal disease poses a significant problem to the health, wellbeing and survival of children of less than five-year age group and is the second leading cause of mortality. Most of the deaths are due to ...
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Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus: Prevention of Persistent Fetal Infection by a Combination of Two Mutations Affecting Erns RNase and Npro Protease
... tablishment or maintenance of persistent infection in the fetus. To discriminate between these two possibilities, further studies were conducted, in which viruses were injected directly into the amniotic fluid of ...
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“Self” and “Nonself” Manipulation of Interferon Defense during Persistent Infection: Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus Resists Alpha/Beta Interferon without Blocking Antiviral Activity against Unrelated Viruses Replicating in Its Host Cells
... maintaining persistent infection without globally compromising its host’s IFN defense system to fight viral ...Finally, persistent infection may go undetected for years, and this increases the chance of ...
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