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...nearly 40 years in Thailand. That needs to change. Most cases of diarrhea can be traced to food or water tainted by 100 or so intestinal bugs, most commonly rotavirus, E. coli, shigella, campylobacter and salmonella. Thumb sucking doesn't help; it can lead to what doctors call fecal-oral contamination. "Toddlers will always pick up things and put them into their mouths and, if you don't have a clean environment, that can lead to diarrhea," says Therese Dooley, until recently a unicef project officer in Ethiopia. Infection triggers a cascade of events that can cause diarrhea, if left...
...Mahalanabis' gamble paid off. The fatality rate among the patients in the camp fell to 3% from 30%, and to less than 1% when IV fluids were administered to the most severely ill. Still, skepticism about the effectiveness of oral rehydration continued. Several journals refused to publish Mahalanabis' paper about the outbreak. But Dhiman Barua, then head of WHO's bacterial diseases unit in Geneva, Switzerland and a survivor of the massive 1932 cholera epidemic in Bangladesh's southern port city of Chittagong, had visited Mahalanabis' camp. He was converted and pushed oral rehydration through all the U.N. health agencies...
...diarrheal illnesses. Now, fewer than 20% of the students fall ill. Solomon has been sick once in the past six months. "Hand washing is such a simple thing, but it can have a major impact on a child's health," says Unicef's Dooley. Simple remedies such as oral rehydration and pit latrines don't make the world's headlines. Yet recurrent bouts of diarrhea not only disrupt a child's schooling, but also retard physical development as vital nutrients are continually flushed out of the body. One ray of hope: preliminary studies suggest that zinc supplements protect the intestine...
...disgorge its contents in watery (or bloody) stools. The fluid loss leads to dehydration, marked by dizziness, dry or sticky[an error occurred while processing this directive] mouth, less and darker urine, sunken eyes and weight loss. Severe dehydration can lead to shock, kidney failure and death. Rehydration Oral rehydration solution (ORS) can reverse most cases of dehydration if given quickly. It can be made from one teaspoon of salt and eight teaspoons of sugar dissolved in a liter of water then administered gradually - at a cost of literally pennies per child. The Mechanism When ORS reaches the small intestine...
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