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Could Your Child’s Upset Stomach Be A Norovirus Infection? Watch For These Red Flags
Norovirus cases are surging, with UKHSA reporting a 29.4% increase in two weeks. Highly contagious, it infects 20 million ...
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Children's gut bacteria may hold the key to diarrhea treatment
Diarrhea claims the lives of 500,000 children each year in low- and middle-income countries. Now, Danish and Ethiopian researchers have linked chronic diarrhea to a specific pattern of gut ...
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Children's Health Resource Center
Why do children get diarrhea more often than adults? WebMD tells you about the causes of diarrhea and home treatments for it. Hand, foot, and mouth disease is common in children. It’s not ...
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Children, teens face 25% higher risk for adverse GI outcomes after COVID-19 infection
Children and adolescents with documented postacute COVID-19 syndrome experienced increased risk for gastrointestinal symptoms and disorders, according to a study published in JAMA Open Network.
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World ORS Day 2017
The second main preventable cause of death in children under 5 is diarrhea. ORS is a cheap and easily accessible remedy to prevent dehydration due to excessive loss of fluid and electrolytes.
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90 Effect of Daily Intake of Prebiotic (Fructooligosaccharide) on Weight Gain and Reduction Diarrhea Morbidities Among Urban Children in Bangladesh
There is currently insufficient evidence to support their use to prevent diarrhea in children. We evaluated the effect of daily intake of fructooligosaccharide (FOS), a prebiotic agent on diarrhea ...
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Sugar-free slushies can make young kids seriously sick, study suggests
Nearly all of the children in the study -- 94% -- experienced a drop in consciousness, 95% had dangerously low blood sugar, and 94% developed a buildup of acid in the body. Other symptoms included low ...