Abstract:
Diarrhea is one of the principal causes of morbidity and mortality among children in the
developing world and is the second leading killer of children under the age of five years,
accounting for approximately 1.6 million deaths annually. An estimated 17 percent of the
annual 10.8 million deaths in children aged less than five years are estimated to be caused
by diarrhea. While international programs encouraging the use of oral rehydration
therapy (ORT) and other interventions have helped to lower these rates, diarrheal disease
remains a very serious public health issue for children across the globe. Recently, strong
evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of new, low osmolarity ORS and zinc
supplementation catalyzed an international call to action urging countries to adopt new
treatment guidelines and increase efforts to improve ORS coverage. At the end of 2007,
34 Countdown priority countries had adopted both new guidelines and 17 more had
adopted one or the other.
The aim of this study was to get information of young children below six months with
diarrhoea admitted to Institute of Child Health and Shishu Sasthya Foundation Hospital
(ICH & SSF) about their symptoms and treatment profile. Hospital records of eighteen
children aged below six months admitted to ICH & SSF reviewed for the purpose of
getting information about the symptoms and treatment profile for those infants. The
common symptoms of the study infants were loose watery stool, fever, cough, vomiting,
swelling, etc. Most of the patients were treated with KOLORIDE infusion which is a
balanced combination of electrolytes, ORS and some patients were kept under NPO
(nothing per oral) for sometime. Among 18 patients, only 2 children received antibiotic
therapy. The common antibiotics used for treating the patients were ciprozoid
(ciprofloxacin) and Civox (ciprofloxacin). The result of this study shows that the
symptoms of the patients disappeared after receiving the appropriate treatment.
Description:
This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm) in East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.