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Title: |
Types & Causes of Childhood Diarrhea |
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| By (author): |
Tinuade A Ogunlesi |
| ISBN10-13: |
1617281689 : 9781617281686 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
140x215mm |
| Pages: |
54 |
| Weight: |
.102 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - February 2011 |
| List Price: |
61.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Subjects: |
Public health & preventive medicine |
| The three clinical types of childhood diarrhoea include - acute watery, persistent and dysentery. Acute watery diarrhoea which lasts for less than 14 days constitutes 60 to 80% of childhood diarrhoea while persistent diarrhoea lasting for over 14 days forms 3 to 12% of all cases. The presence of blood in diarrhoea stool makes it dysenteric and this occurs in 10 to 20% of cases in the developing world. Childhood diarrhoea may be secretory, osmotic or invasive. Most cases of childhood diarrhoea in the developing world are infective. Close to 90% of enteropathogens in childhood diarrhoea are identifiable particularly with serology. This book discusses the aetiologies of childhood diarrhoea, as well as variance of these symptoms in different locations around the world. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Introduction; Diarrhoeal Syndromes; Epidemiology of Diarrhoea; Mechanisms of Diarrhoea; Predisposing Factors; Aetiology of Watery Diarrhoea; Dysentery; Persistent Diarrhoea; Chronic Diarrhoea; Conclusion; Index. |
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