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I, 5. Treatment of viral gastroenteritis
Viral gastroenteritis (mainly after rotavirus infection) directly causes death through dehydration. Thus, the treatment and prevention of dehydration are the primary goals in caring for infants with gastroenteritis. Viral gastroenteritis can also inflict considerable nutritional insult on children b...
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description | Viral gastroenteritis (mainly after rotavirus infection) directly causes death through dehydration. Thus, the treatment and prevention of dehydration are the primary goals in caring for infants with gastroenteritis. Viral gastroenteritis can also inflict considerable nutritional insult on children because of anorexia, vomiting, malabsorption, and traditional therapies in which nutritionally poor diets are offered. This chapter discusses the treatment of the deficiencies of fluids, electrolytes, and nutrients. While there are already very good cost-effective strategies for correcting the sequelae of viral gastroenteritis, there is little yet available to effectively treat the acute symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea. The chapter discusses several potential modes of symptomatic therapy for viral gastroenteritis including probiotics, antivirals, passive immunotherapy, and antidiarrheals. The first major advance in the treatment of dehydration was the development of effective intravenous rehydration therapy. |
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spelling | pubmed-71340102020-04-08 I, 5. Treatment of viral gastroenteritis Bass, Dorsey Perspect Med Virol Article Viral gastroenteritis (mainly after rotavirus infection) directly causes death through dehydration. Thus, the treatment and prevention of dehydration are the primary goals in caring for infants with gastroenteritis. Viral gastroenteritis can also inflict considerable nutritional insult on children because of anorexia, vomiting, malabsorption, and traditional therapies in which nutritionally poor diets are offered. This chapter discusses the treatment of the deficiencies of fluids, electrolytes, and nutrients. While there are already very good cost-effective strategies for correcting the sequelae of viral gastroenteritis, there is little yet available to effectively treat the acute symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea. The chapter discusses several potential modes of symptomatic therapy for viral gastroenteritis including probiotics, antivirals, passive immunotherapy, and antidiarrheals. The first major advance in the treatment of dehydration was the development of effective intravenous rehydration therapy. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2003 2004-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7134010/ /pubmed/32287600 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0168-7069(03)09006-2 Text en Copyright © 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Bass, Dorsey I, 5. Treatment of viral gastroenteritis |
title | I, 5. Treatment of viral gastroenteritis |
title_full | I, 5. Treatment of viral gastroenteritis |
title_fullStr | I, 5. Treatment of viral gastroenteritis |
title_full_unstemmed | I, 5. Treatment of viral gastroenteritis |
title_short | I, 5. Treatment of viral gastroenteritis |
title_sort | i, 5. treatment of viral gastroenteritis |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7134010/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32287600 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0168-7069(03)09006-2 |
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