Persistent diarrhea: management in a diarrhea treatment unit.

Abstract:

:Five hundred ninety two children (6.0%) were diagnosed as persistent diarrhea (PD) out of a total attendance of 9795 cases in the Diarrhea Training and Treatment Unit (DTU) over a period of 1 year. Most of the cases were initially managed as outpatients on dietary advice and treatment of associated infections. Eighty eight per cent of the cases followed as outpatients from the DTU responded to treatment and only 11.5% of them had to be hospitalized. A total of 49/592 cases (8.3%) required to be hospitalized on account of treatment failure from outpatients and other indications. Clinical spectrum of hospitalized children included severe malnutrition (40.8%), pneumonia (40.8%), urinary tract infection (32.7%), lactose intolerance (32.7%), anemia (28.6%), septicemia (16.3%), dysentery (8.2%) and neck flop due to hypokalemia (4.1%). Dietary management included modifications in the diet already offered to hospitalized patients. Thirty eight children were fed on one of these diets. Of these 13/35 children (37.1%) were successfully managed with lactose reduced diet., 18/22 cases (81.8%) with lactose free diet and only in 2 cases carbohydrate free diet was given. In 3 cases, normal feeding was continued. Eleven cases were too sick to be offered any oral feeding. Eleven of forty nine cases (22.4%) expired. Mortality was highest in infants <6 months (31.6%). The causes of death included severe malnutrition (14.3%), septicemia (14.3%) and pneumonia (12.2%). Screening and treating cases of PD for associated infections like septicemia, pneumonia and urinary tract infection seems to be a key factor which determines morbidity and mortality in these cases. Feeding on a hospital food modified as lactose reduced/free diet can benefit majority of cases with PD and a very small proportion of cases may require carbohydrate free diet.

journal_name

Indian Pediatr

journal_title

Indian pediatrics

authors

Patwari AK,Anand VK,Aneja S,Sharma D

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1995-03-01 00:00:00

pages

277-84

issue

3

eissn

0019-6061

issn

0974-7559

journal_volume

32

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