Tag: Dehydration
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Severe Acute Malnutrition
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Severe acute malnutrition is due to an imbalance between food intake and needs of the individual. This is usually a deficit in both quantitative (number of kilocalories / day) and qualitative (vitamins, minerals, etc.). In children over 6 months: The two major clinical forms of severe malnutrition are: – The slump: large muscle and fat…
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Acute diarrhea
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– Acute diarrhea is defined as the transmission of at least 3 loose stools per day for less than 2 weeks. – Clinically, there are 2 types of acute diarrhea: • simple diarrhea without blood, caused by viruses in 60% of cases (rotavirus, enterovirus), bacteria (Vibrio cholerae, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, Salmonella non-typhi, Yersinia enterocolitica) or…
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Shigellosis
– There are four subgroups of Shigella S. flexneri, S. boydii, S. sonnei and S. dysenteriae. S. dysenteriae type 1 (Sd1) is the only strain that causes large scale epidemics. It is that which has the highest fatality (up 10%). – Ciprofloxacin is currently the only effective treatment. It is therefore essential to avoid the…
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