Diarrhea claims the lives of 500,000 children each year in low- and middle-income countries. Now, Danish and Ethiopian ...

A child suffers on an average 10 to 15 episodes of diarrhea in the first five years of life, of which 3 to 5 episodes occur in the first year of life. About 80% of deaths due to diarrhea occur in ...

Salazar-Lindo E, Santisteban-Ponce J, Chea-Woo E, Gutierrez M. Racecadotril in the treatment of acute watery diarrhea in children. N Engl J Med 2000 Aug 17; 343(7): 463–7. MEDLINE 14.

Acute gastroenteritis commonly causes diarrhea and vomiting in children and adolescents, resulting in many outpatient clinic visits, emergency department visits and hospitalizations, often owing ...

Children under two years of age shouldn ... prescribe this class of antibiotics as a first-line treatment for traveler’s diarrhea or to target specific bacteria. Fluoroquinolones are considered ...

and no treatment in more than 6,000 children taking antibiotics, fewer children in the probiotic group (8 percent) developed antibiotic-associated diarrhea compared to the other groups (19 percent).

Almost half of adults and children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) responded to the investigational MEK inhibitor ...

There is currently insufficient evidence to support their use to prevent diarrhea in children. We evaluated the effect of daily intake of fructooligosaccharide (FOS), a prebiotic agent on diarrhea ...

Abdominal pain, bloat, chronic or intermitant diarrhea ... after the end of treatment, direct and formol- ether fecal examination was performed on 3 consecutive days for each child.

Some of the best evidence of probiotics efficacy has been in the treatment of diarrheal illnesses. The mechanisms by which probiotics prevent or ameliorate diarrhea are stimulation of the immune ...