Diarrhea in Children: Common Causes and Treatments. Diarrhea is the body's way of ridding itself of germs, and most episodes last a few days to a week. Diarrhea can occur with fever, ...

In most cases diarrhea in children recovers completely in a week with little or no treatment. However, there is still a high risk of death due to diarrhea especially among children less than 5 ...

Diarrhea claims the lives of 500,000 children each year in low- and middle-income countries. Now, Danish and Ethiopian researchers have linked chronic diarrhea to a specific pattern of gut ...

HIPPOCRATES defined diarrhea as a condition of "abnormal frequency and liquidity of fecal discharge." At the present time, and especially in small babies, we are more concerned with the volume of ...

Diarrhea remains one of the leading killers of children under five and the elderly, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and ...

The efficacy and safety of racecadotril as an adjuvant to oral rehydration therapy have also been demonstrated in infants and children with less severe diarrhea. 8 Interestingly, in both our study ...

Children receive treatment at the International Centre For Diarrheal Disease Research in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Jan. 23. Diarrhea is the second-leading cause of death among children under 5 worldwide.

While cases of diarrhea in children often increase after heavy rains and flooding, new research suggests a link between extended droughts and the at-times deadly illness for those under the age of 5.

Diarrhea is a leading killer of young children around the world, and cases often rise after heavy rains and flooding. But diarrhea risks can also increase in dry conditions, an ominous sign as the ...

Across all the countries surveyed, 14.4% of children had experienced diarrhea in the last 2 weeks. The risk was highest in children aged 6 to 23 months. In Niger, the most affected country, some ...

Diarrhea claims the lives of 500,000 children each year in low- and middle-income countries. Now researchers have linked chronic diarrhea to a specific pattern of gut bacteria, a discovery that ...