Therapeutic methods for diarrhea in children.

Acute diarrhoea is defined as passage of loose orwatery stools at least three t imes in a 24 h period.When loose stools contain blood, it is called bloodydiarrhoea (dysentery). It is the consistency of thestools which is most important rather than thefrequency. Breast-fed babies often pass “pasty” stoolsfr equently which is not diarrhoea. The mother canoften tell accurately whether child has diarrhoea ornot.