Mar 7, 2024 · WHO fact sheet on diarrhoeal disease provides key facts and information on scope, causes, prevention and treatment, and WHO response.

Abdominal cramps, fever and water diarrhoea; bacillary dysentery is characterized by bloody diarrhoea. Incubation period: 24-72 hours Faecal-oral transmission through person-to-person contact, …

Las enfermedades diarreicas son la tercera causa de muerte en niños de 1 a 59 meses de edad. Son prevenibles y pueden tratarse.

Dec 5, 2024 · Cholera is an extremely virulent disease. It affects both children and adults and can kill within hours if left untreated. Severe cases need rapid treatment with intravenous fluids and antibiotics.

Jan 1, 2005 · Compared to earlier versions, it includes revised guidelines on the management of children with acute diarrhoea using the new reduced (low) osmolarity ORS formulation and using …

Aug 9, 2023 · Children with severe acute malnutrition may have difficulty keeping themselves properly hydrated, however it can be difficult to assess the hydration status of severely malnourished children. …

Oct 12, 2023 · WHO fact sheet on climate change and health: provides key facts, patterns of infection, measuring health effects and WHO response.

Currently, zinc is not used to treat most cases of diarrhoea because the known benefits of zinc supplementation are still not widely appreciated by physicians and health-care workers in developing …

Millions of people globally do not have access to safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and consequently suffer from or are exposed to a multitude of preventable illnesses. Unsafe …

Mar 31, 2021 · Typical side effects include pain at the injection site, fever, fatigue, headache, muscle pain, chills and diarrhoea. The chances of any of these side effects occurring after vaccination differ …