Zinc treatment for diarrhoea reduces child deaths

Giving zinc as a treatment can reduce morbidity and mortality from diarrhoea in children. A trial by Baqui and colleagues (p 1059) in rural Bangladesh found that zinc treatment significantly reduced the incidence of diarrhoea and acute lower respiratory infection, admissions to hospital due of diarrhoea, and other non-injury related causes of death in children. The impact on mortality was large. Zinc treatment is a simple and inexpensive intervention that can be used within existing diarrhoeal disease control efforts.


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Effect of zinc supplementation started during diarrhoea on morbidity and mortality in Bangladeshi children: community randomised trial
Abdullah H Baqui, Robert E Black, Shams El Arifeen, Mohammad Yunus, Joysnamoy Chakraborty, Saifuddin Ahmed, and J Patrick Vaughan
BMJ 2002 325: 1059. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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