Paediatrist - 01
Diarrhoea is the increase frequency of stools more than 3 times a day with the changes of its appearance.
Diarrhoeal disease are one of the largest cause for child deaths in the world. It is the second large cause of death in under 5 age child. This is mainly due to the complications of diarrhoea like dehydration, secondary inflection. Most of the diarrhoeal conditions are cause by different kinds of inflections like
cholera,
Salmonella,
Shigella,
Ameoba,
Giadia,
Toxoplasma, Rotavirus, Norvovirus, Adenovirus. Although these are more prevalent in lower socioeconomic groups, all the children affected world wide. Therefore it is a one of the main public health issue through out the world.
Why diarrhoeal diseases are common in children............?
1. We all have good normal flora in our GIT. This develops slowly through out our lives. But children have immature immune system and GIT flora in there intestine. Therefore they are more susceptible to get inflected by common infectious agents.
2. Most of the children expose to garden in your home every day. Then they get contacted with the pathogenic organisms and get inflected by them.
3. If your family member get inflected with feco-orally transmitted disease recently the immature immunity of your children will lead to disease transmission.
4. Other important thing is the pets in your home who will be the vector of the various diarrhoeal diseases. Your children are often contact them and they may inflected through this.