Title:
Use of Oral Rehydration Therapy in Children Younger Than Five Years of Age With Acute Diarrhoea –Examples from Bangladesh and Uganda
Authors:
Teschner, Beatrice
Year:
2013
PAGE:
x, 69
Language:
En
Subject:
Health and Poverty
Keywords:
Bangladesh, Children, Childhood, Diarrhoea, Diarrhea, Diarrhoeal Disease, Diarrhoeal Episode, Oral Rehydration, Oral Rehydration Therapy, ORT, Oral Rehydration Salt, Oral Rehydration Solution, ORS, Uganda
Abstract:
Background: Although ORS has proven to be effective in preventing childhood deaths due to diarrhoea; in developing countries, only one-third of children younger than five years of age with diarrhoea received this treatment. Method: This thesis is a desk study and relies solely on a review of the relevant literature available. The conceptual framework ‘Use of Medicines in the Management of Childhood Illness’ was utilised. Objectives: To explore caregivers’ home-based treatment practices for children with acute diarrhoea and to explore healthcare services delivered by healthcare providers to caregivers’ children with acute diarrhoea at healthcare facilities and existing guidelines and policies supporting the diarrhoeal treatment in children in Bangladesh and Uganda. Findings: In most of the diarrhoeal cases caregivers in Bangladesh and Uganda decided that a child needed treatment and sought healthcare from a healthcare provider. Bangladeshi caregivers appear to recognize diarrhoea as watery and loose stools. Some of them may fail to observe signs of dehydration. In both countries caregivers may receive appropriate, such as oral rehydration salt and inappropriate treatment, such as antibiotics and antimotility drugs to a treat a child with diarrhoea. Conclusion: ORS appears to be accessible, available, and affordable throughout Bangladesh. Bangladeshi caregivers seem to accept ORS as useful medicine for their children with diarrhoea. Recommendation: Further research is needed on Bangladeshi and Ugandan caregivers’ ability to recognise symptoms of diarrhoea. All caregivers should be included in research. Therapeutic interventions, such as oral rehydration therapy should be administered in the early stages of a diarrhoeal episode. Guidelines and policies need to support availability, accessibility and affordability of oral rehydration salt and zinc.
Organization:
KIT - Royal Tropical Institute
,
VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Institute:
KIT (Royal Tropical Institute)
Department:
Development, Policy and Practice
Country:
Germany
Region:
Central Europe
Training:
European Master of Science in International Health (tropEd) (MIH)
Category:
Research
Right:
© 2013 Teschner
Document type:
Thesis/dissertation
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