SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.11 issue3Factores de riesgo en el bajo peso al nacer author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Indicators

  • Have no cited articlesCited by SciELO

Related links

  • Have no similar articlesSimilars in SciELO

Share


Revista Cubana de Medicina General Integral

Print version ISSN 0864-2125On-line version ISSN 1561-3038

Abstract

CASTANEDA AVALOS, Hazel; VALDES PACHECO, Everardo  and  RODRIGUEZ VARGAS, Nuris. Efectividad de la rehidratación oral en niños pequeños con enfermedad diarreica aguda. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 1995, vol.11, n.3, pp.218-223. ISSN 0864-2125.

A study was conducted with the participation of 100 children between 0 and 2 years of age from 6 medical offices of the family doctor which belong to the "19 de Abril" teaching polyclinics and who were taken to consultation because of an acute diarrheal disease without treatment. Patients were prescribed oral rehydration salts. Females predominated, as well as the age group of 4-11 months. Most of them presented with a good nutritional status between percentile 3 and 10. None of the patients required hospitalization because of dehydration; 8 cases were admitted due to other causes. Most of the parents knew about oral rehydration salts, but only one group used them spontaneously. The majority of parents had a mid-educational level.

Keywords : DIARRHEA, INFANTILE [therapy]; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY [methods]; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish

 

Creative Commons License All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License