Pediatric Diarrhoea or Diarrhea in Child Guidelines: Diarrhea, also spelled diarrhea, is the condition of having at least three loose or liquid bowel movements each day. It often lasts for a few days and can result in dehydration due to fluid loss. Signs of dehydration often begin with loss of the normal stretchiness of the …
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Treatment and Management of Diarrhoea in Children Necessary Concept about Diarrhoea in Children: Diarrhea, also spelled diarrhea, is the condition of having at least three loose or liquid bowel movements each day. It often lasts for a few days and can result in dehydration due to fluid loss. Signs of dehydration often begin with loss …
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Definition of Diarrhea in Children: Diarrhea is defined as the passage of loose, liquid or watery stools, more than three times per day. It is the passages of loose watery stool more than 3 times a day. Diarrhea can be defined as increased stool frequency and lose of watery stool. The most common cause is …
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Definition of Low Birth Weight (LBW) Baby: According to WHO, a low birth weight LBW) baby is one with a birth weight of less than 2500 8, within the first hour of life, before significant postnatal weight loss. Risk Factors for Low Birth Weight (LBW) Baby: All the risk factors for low birth weight (LBW) …
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Definition of Dehydration in Children: Dehydration is defined as excessive loss of body water. In physiology, dehydration is a deficit of total body water with an accompanying disruption of metabolic processes. Classification or Types of Dehydration in Children: It includes- No signs of dehydration, Some dehydration, Severe dehydration. Assessment Strategy or Sign and Symptoms of …
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Definition of Malnutrition in Children: Malnutrition is an impairment of health resulting from a deficiency, excess or imbalance of nutrients. It includes under nutrition, which refers to a deficiency of calories and /or one or more essential nutrients and over nutrition which is an excess of one or more nutrients and usually of calories. It …
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Vitamin C and D Deficiency: Symptoms, Effects and Prevention Water Soluble Vitamin Deficiency Disorders: 1. Vitamin B complex: a. Vitamin B1 (thiamine): Deficiency disorder: Beriberi b. Vitamin B2 (riboflavin): Deficiency disorder: Oral ulcer c. Vitamin B3; (niacin): Deficiency disorder: Pellagra, it means rough skin d. Vitamin B5 (pantothanic acid): Deficiency disorder: Fatty liver e. Vitamin …
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Definition of Rickets in Child: Rickets is a disorder of growing due to deficiency of vitamin D in which there is failure of mineralization of the epiphyseal growth plate, newly formed bony matrix (osteoid). Classification or Types of Rickets in Child: 1. Nutritional rickets: Lack of vitamin D, Other factors: Decreased exposure to the sun …
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Definition of Nutritional Anaemia or Anemia: The qualitative and quantitative deficiency of red blood cell is called anaemia. Anaemia due to mineral and vitamin deficiency is called nutritional anaemia. Nutritional anaemia is moderate to serve public health problem in Bangladesh. Anaemia refers to a state in which the level of haemoglobin in the blood is …
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Vitamin A Deficiency: Disease List, Causes and Prevention Fat Soluble Vitamin Deficiency Disorders: 1. Vitamin A Deficiency Disorders: a. Ocular change: Night blindness, Conjunctival xerosis, Bitotos spot, Corneal xerosis, Corneal scar, Corneal ulceration/Keratommalacia involving less than 1/3 of the corneal surface. Corneal ulceration/Keratommalacia involving more than 1/3 of the corneal surface. Xerophthalmic fundi (White retinal …
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