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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1991 37(1):31-36; doi:10.1093/tropej/37.1.31
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Diarrhoea Mortality in Rural Bangladeshi Children

V. Fauveau, M. Yunus, K. Zaman, J. Chakraborty and A. M. Sarder

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (I.C.D.D.R.,B.), G.P.O. Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangládesh

Diarrhoeal mortality and hospital admissions for diarrhoea are described among children under the age of 5 years in a large rural Bangladeshi community during 1986–87. Acute watery(dehydrating) diarrhoea was associated with 11 per cent of all deaths among infants aged 1–11 months and 5 per cent among children aged 1–4 years. Acute non-watery diarrhoea, including bloody dysentery and diarrhoea with mucoid stools, was associated with 16 per cent of all deaths among children aged 1–4 years. In this age group, persistent diarrhoea, particularly when accompanied by recent and/or severe wasting, was associated with 63 per cent of all diarrhoeal deaths and 34 per cent of all deaths.

These data suggest that exclusive emphasis on ORT will have little impact on diarrhoea mortality among children in rural Bangladesh. A broader strategy, both preventive and curative, including measles immunization, nutrition education, dietary management of diarrhoea, and the treatment of dysentery in the community, carries a greater potential.


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