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| Title: | Zinc therapy for diarrhoea increased the use of oral rehydration therapy and reduced the use of antibiotics in Bangladeshi children |
| Authors: | Baqui, Abdullah H.
Black, Robert E.
Arifeen, Shams El
Yunus, Mohammad
Zaman, K.
Begum, Nazma
Roess, Amira A.
Santosham, Mathuram |
| Keywords: | Zinc
Zinc therapy
Diarrhoea
Oral rehydration therapy
Diarrhoea, Infantile
Bangladesh |
| Issue Date: | 4-Sep-2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | J Health Popul Nutr
2004 Dec;22(4):440-442 |
| Abstract: | Excessive use of antibiotics for diarrhoea is a major contributing factor towards increasing rates of antimicrobial resistance in developing countries. Zinc therapy for diarrhoea has been shown to be bene-ficial in controlled efficacy trials, and it is of interest to determine if availability of zinc syrup for treatment of diarrhoea would satisfy the demand for a ’medicine’ for diarrhoea, thus reducing the use of antibiotics, without competing with the use of oral rehydration therapy (ORT). This community-based controlled trial was conducted from November 1998 to October 2000, and all children aged 3-59 months in the study area were included. In this trial, the availability of zinc supplements, along with ORT and appropriate education programmes, was associated with significantly higher use of ORT and lower use of antibiotics. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/143 |
| Appears in Collections: | Public health sciences research papers
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