- All Journals
- Al-Qadisiyah University
- Basrah University
- Kirkuk University
- Mosul University
- The Iraqi Borad for Medical Specialization
- University of Anbar
- University of Technology
- Al Mustafa University
- Al-Zahraa University for Women
- Alnoor University
- Kunooz University
- Misan University
- Ninevah University
- Tikrit University
- University of Al-Hamdaniya
- University of Kerbala
Types of dehydration from diarrhoea in children in Karbala | ||
| Kerbala Journal of Medicine | ||
| Article 20, Volume 2, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 702-709 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Ghusoon Ghanem | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Dehydration as a result of diarrhoea continues to be a leading cause of death in children, especially in developing countries and in these countries, diarrhea outbreaks are more often linked to contaminated water supplies, person to –person contact in places such as child – care centres, or food poisoning. This study has focused on children under 3 years of age who have been admitted to Karbala pediatric hospital with diarrhoea and dehydration from January to July 2008 and the types of dehydration from diarrhoea for these children were studied with relation between these types and different ages and types of feeding with the level of serum sodium concentrations. Objective: To evaluate which types of dehydration is common between children with diarrhoea in Karbala. Materials and Methods : We present the results to retrospective analysis of the types of diarrhoea dehydration in 150 cases admitted to Karbala paediatric hospital in 6 months period in summer 2008 in Karbala in relation to age and nutritional state of children, of 150 children 27(18.1 %) were hypernatremia ; 122(81.9 %) were isonatramia .and we divided the children into three groups age the first age group from ( 1-12), the second age group (13-24) and the third age group ( 25-36) Results: There are a significant in the level of serum sodium concentration among the children with breast , artificial and mixed feeding ; while there are no significant between the artificial and mixed feeding. However There are a significant in the level of serum sodium concentration among the children in the three age groups; and there are a significant in the two types of dehydration status moderate and severe. Conclusion: It has been deduced that there are two kinds of dehydration from diarrhoea in this study in Karbala, hypernatramic and isonatramic from total sample, while no signs lead to existence hyponatramic type. | ||
|
Statistics Article View: 115 PDF Download: 65 |
||