- Objectives
- Diagnosis and causes of diarrhoea
- What is diarrhoea?
- Is diarrhoea common?
- Can diarrhoea be dangerous?
- What are the common causes of diarrhoea?
- What infections cause diarrhoea?
- What food intolerances cause diarrhoea?
- What is gastroenteritis?
- What is acute diarrhoea?
- What is persistent diarrhoea?
- What is the relationship between diarrhoea and malnutrition?
- Is diarrhoea common in children with HIV infection?
- Which infants are at greatest risk of dying from diarrhoea?
- What is cholera?
- What is dysentery?
- What is typhoid?
- The complications of acute diarrhoea
- What are the complications of acute diarrhoea?
- How can you recognise dehydration?
- How can you recognise loss of skin turgor?
- How can the degree of dehydration be assessed?
- How can weight loss help to decide the degree of dehydration?
- What is shock?
- How is a delayed capillary filling time measured?
- What causes acidosis in children with diarrhoea?
- Why do children with diarrhoea lose electrolytes?
- What is ileus?
- What is the danger of hypoglycaemia?
- How is septicaemia recognised?
- What signs suggest that the diarrhoea may have a surgical cause?
- Treatment of diarrhoea
- What is the management of a child with acute diarrhoea?
- Will milk feeds make acute diarrhoea worse?
- Can children with acute diarrhoea continue to be fed solid food?
- Should anti-diarrhoeal medication be used to treat acute diarrhoea?
- Should antibiotics be routinely given to children with acute diarrhoea?
- What should you do if the child vomits a lot?
- Can a child with acute diarrhoea be treated at home?
- What is oral rehydration therapy?
- What is oral rehydration solution?
- What is commercial oral rehydration solution?
- How can a sugar and salt solution be made at home?
- Who should know how to make up sugar and salt solution for oral rehydration?
- When should oral rehydration therapy be started?
- How much oral rehydration solution should be given?
- Which children with acute diarrhoea should be referred to hospital?
- What is the management of persistent diarrhoea?
- What is the management of dysentery?
- Management of dehydration
- What is the management of a child with diarrhoea but no visible dehydration?
- What is the treatment of a child with some dehydration?
- What is the treatment of a child with severe dehydration?
- What is the treatment of dehydration resulting in shock?
- What fluids should be given once dehydration has been corrected?
- What is the value of zinc supplements in managing a child with diarrhoea?
- Prevention of diarrhoea