Paediatrics » Infections

Approach to a child with diarrhoea and vomiting

Approach to a child with diarrhoea and vomiting includes making a diagnosis based on history and clinical examination, assessing the degree of dehydration in per cent and grams, choosing the place of care, and management directed at preventing or treating the dehydration that so often accompanies this disease: Oral rehydration therapy should be the initial treatment. Antibiotic treatment may shorten the course of some diarrhoeal illnesses (e.g. Shigella or traveler's diarrhoea), most bacterial diarrhoeas are self-limiting.

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