Conduct a survey in your locality to tind out about the practices adopted to treat and control
diarrhea at home. Use the format given in practical activity I to record your results.
Background:
Diarrheal disease forms one of the two major killer diseases in children under five years of age in the developing world. There are inherent cultural practices for management of diarrhea at the domestic level. Also, the treatment practices at health centers vary, with inappropriate use of antibiotics, and iv fluids observed commonly, while ORS is less frequently used.
Methodology: Cross sectional study was carried out using pretested interview schedule between January and December 2006, in villages of Kashmir Valley.
Results: The ORS use rate is low (24.4% and 8.4%) respectively in past and current episode. Cultural practices include harmful ones like starving to overcome the episode. The rate of Antibiotic use is higher with 77.9%.
Conclusion: Kashmir valley faces the same problems in effective diarrhea management as in other developing regions of India and the world, viz. less ORS use, high antibiotic use and harmful cultural practices like giving bowel rest.
Introduction
Children 0–5 years form a vital group in the community and constitute about 13% of the population. Due to the still developing immunological system and poor sense of hygiene among the parents, these children are prone to many infections, the commonest among them being Diarrhoea and ARI. Diarrhoeal diseases in children under five years age are perhaps the most common human aliment that is the source of discomfort, misery and loss of time to their parents and burden to health system as compared to their older siblings in which the course of disease is mild. The importance of first five years of life of a child for its growth and development is well known. Any adverse influences operating on children during this period e.g., malnutrition and infection may result in severe limitations in their growth and development, some of which may be irreversible (1,2).
According to the UNICEF study, each child, on an average, in the developing world suffers from diarrheal diseases for more than three times a year (3). This study also supports the fact that diarrheal disease is the foremost leading cause of under five deaths among the major childhood diseases in the developing world contributing to 35% of mortality in children under
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