Acute Gastroenteritis Responds To Treatment With Either Gatorade Or Pedialyte
Satish S.C. Rao, M.D, Ph.D., FACG of the University of Iowa and colleagues at the Osmania Medical College in Hyderabad have found that Gatorade and Pedialyte are equally effective as oral rehydration salts in children suffering from and vomiting related to acute viral gastroenteritis.// The researchers have presented their findings at the 70th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Americ...Gastroenteritis Claims Two Lives In Mumbai, More People Affected
Gastroenteritis has claimed the lives of two children in Mumbai and many more with the symptoms of the disease are being treated at various hospitals. // Health authorities said that more doctors has been pressed into service to treat those 90-odd people who are undergoing treatment. Around 50 people were admitted to hospitals Wednesday, particularly in south Mumbai, where the infection...One More Succumbs To Gastroenteritis In Mumbai, More People Hospitalised
One more person died of gastroenteritis in the city, talking the toll to three, as more than 200 people were admitted to various hospitals with symptoms of the disease.// "A 24-year-old man from the Khetwadi area of south Mumbai died at the J.J. Hospital Thursday night," director general of health services T.P. Doke told IANS. "There are 212 patients admitted to various hos...Gastroenteritis Outbreak Feared In Pakistan
At least 30 people have died of heat and hundreds of people suffering from gastroenteritis have been admitted in hospitals in Pakistan's central Punjab province// , Daily Times newspaper reported Monday. At least three children have died of the disease, the newspaper said. Most of the deaths were reported from southern Punjab, as temperatures shot up to 47 degrees Celsius i...Two Die, 55 Afflicted With Gastroenteritis And Diarrhea
Two persons died of gastroenteritis and diarrhoea and 55 others were afflicted with the disease in Chhajli village in the Sunam sub-division //. The deaths of an eight-year-old boy and aged woman and illness of others were reported yesterday amidst apprehensions of an outbreak of cholera. Medical teams were pressed into service today. Civil Surgeon S K Bansal said 4-5 teams...