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Filter by:Diarrhea due to acute enteritis is a common symptom in the children. Lots of patients are infected by rotavirus or salmonella. Base on the past researches, there is benefit effect of probiotics on patients with diarrhea or acute enteritis. In this clinical study, bio-Three, a probiotic which contains three independent probiotics, will be used in patients with acute diarrhea. This is a single site, controlled clinical research. About 80 patients will be enrolled into this study to evaluate the benefit effect of bio-Three among patients with acute enteritis due to rotavirus or salmonella or other unknown reason. Patients will be diagnosed and screened by inclusion and exclusion criteria and only eligible patients will be enrolled into this study.
It is generally recommended that oral rehydration should be used as first-line therapy to treat or prevent dehydration in children with acute gastroenteritis (AGE). Refusal to drink regular Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) interfere with compliance with the recommended treatment. The objective of this study is to compare the tolerance, acceptance, efficacy and safety of a new ORS (Hipp ORS 200 Apple) of improved palatability with regular ORS recommended by ESPGHAN in children with acute gastroenteritis (AGE).
Rotavirus (RV) is the leading cause of severe gastroenteritis (GE) in young children. The cumulative risk of GE hospitalizations and hospital stays of < 24 hours is 1/25, which would amount to 13,600 Canadian children < 5 years. The incidence of nosocomial RV infections is an average of 8/10,000 patient-days in children < 5 years. An immunization program with a live-attenuated monovalent oral RV vaccine (RV1 - Rotarix® from GSK) will be implemented, free of charge, in the Province of Quebec in November 2011. To provide an accurate portrait of the disease and give critical information to the public health agencies as they struggle to control costs, we aim to evaluate the accuracy of surveillance for RV and other diseases with similar characteristics; estimate selection bias in passive laboratory-based surveillance; and estimate the agreement between surveillance time-series created from passive and active surveillance data sources.
The aim of this study is to monitor any impact in the change from the lyophilised formulation to the liquid formulation of the Rotarix™ vaccine on hospitalisations for rotavirus gastroenteritis. This is planned to be assessed by comparing trends of hospitalisations due to laboratory confirmed rotavirus gastroenteritis in children <=5 years of age, before and after introduction of the liquid formulation of the vaccine in Belgium.
To assess the impact of four Patient Information Leaflets (PIL) on patient behaviour in primary care.
Validation of Vital Signs and Symptoms for the Diagnosis of Serious Infections in Acutely Ill Children in a High Prevalent Setting: The Paediatric Accidents & Emergencies through prospective observational data collection concerning specific items from the clinical and technical examination in diagnosing serious infections, such as meningitis, sepsis, pneumonia, pyelonephritis, bronchiolitis with hypoxia. Eventually we will attempt to validate a vital signs and symptoms rule derived from multiple low to high prevalent settings of acutely ill children.
Infants and young children often become infected with gastroenteritis leading to vomiting and diarrhea. This can lead to dehydration, one of the most common complaints in the Pediatric Emergency Department. These children are often in need of treatment with intravenous (IV) fluids. While the investigators know that IV fluids work, it is not clear which type or how much fluid is the best amount to give. Currently, the most common type of IV fluid given is salt water, also called normal saline. In contrast to adults, infants and young children with dehydration often have a build up of a certain type of acid in their blood which can perpetuate the nausea, vomiting, and general malaise associated with gastroenteritis. The investigators feel that giving these children IV fluids with lots of sugar (in addition to the salt) reduces the acid more rapidly than giving just salt water alone. In a prior study, the investigators have shown that children who receive lower amounts of sugar in the IV fluids return to the Emergency Department more often for a second visit. Based on this study, the investigators believe that children who receive the sugar-salt solution will do better than children who receive just normal saline. The investigators will determine if the sugar-salt solution is better by giving equal numbers of children the sugar-salt solution and normal saline and then see what happens to each child. The investigators will monitor who needs to be admitted, how much each child vomits, how much each child drinks, and also the level of acid in the blood before and after getting the IV fluid. After the study is completed, the investigators can compare the two different groups (children who received the sugar-salt solution versus children who received normal saline alone) to determine if one group had greater improvement and better clinical outcome than the other.
The main aim of this study is to investigate cases of rotavirus gastroenteritis in Belgian children with opportunity to receive Rotarix™ to monitor the potential occurrence of genetic drifts (point mutations) in the vaccine strain and the occurrence of genetic shifts (re-assortments) between vaccine and naturally circulating wild-type strains in Belgium population after the introduction of Rotarix™. The study will also detect if there is any alteration in rotavirus pathogenicity conferred by re-assortment and if the mutated vaccine strain is still efficacious in preventing rotavirus gastroenteritis.
The purpose of this study is 1. To describe patient characteristics and drug usage among children that are prescribed esomeprazole for the first time and to compare them with patients who are prescribed other proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) or H2-receptor antagonists for the first time. 2. To ascertain all incident hospitalized cases of angioneurotic oedema, pneumonia, gastroenteritis, failure to thrive, convulsions/seizures, acute interstitial nephritis and thrombocytopenia among new users in the three cohorts of esomeprazole, other PPIs and H2-receptor antagonists.
The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of nitazoxanide suspension compared to placebo in treating rotavirus disease in pediatric patients less than 6 years of age.