1. A study on oral rehydration therapy of diarrheal disease in western Sicily.
- Author
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Nastasi A, Massenti MF, Scarlata G, Mammina C, Alestra V, Botta G, Calcò C, Cannova L, and Polizzi MC
- Subjects
- Anti-Bacterial Agents therapeutic use, Antidiarrheals therapeutic use, Child, Child, Preschool, Diarrhea diet therapy, Diarrhea drug therapy, Diarrhea, Infantile diet therapy, Diarrhea, Infantile drug therapy, Dietary Fiber therapeutic use, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Longitudinal Studies, Sicily, Diarrhea therapy, Diarrhea, Infantile therapy, Fluid Therapy methods
- Abstract
A longitudinal study to ascertain the most common therapeutic approach to diarrheal disease by general practitioners and pediatricians was carried out in Western Sicily. Data obtained showed that of 902 home-managed cases of diarrhea observed by 58 physicians during one year, 65.3% were treated with antibiotics, 8.0% with antimotility agents and 26.7% were not treated with any pharmacological agent (rehydration or diet). Although oral rehydration therapy was widely known by physicians in Western Sicily, only a few of them were willing to use it routinely as the principal and exclusive treatment.
- Published
- 1987
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