The preparation of zinc in the treatment of diarrhea in children

Abstract

In assessing the dynamics of clinical symptoms, the following signs were selected as analyzed signs: general condition, fever, diarrhea, and vomiting, catarrhal phenomena. The inclusion of zinc in the treatment of acute diarrhea in children contributed to a more rapid improvement in the general condition of children. Thus, in more than 2/3 of the patients of the main group (75.4%), already on the 5th day of the disease, the general condition was assessed as satisfactory; whereas in the control group this indicator was almost 2 times lower (32.3%). On the 7th day of treatment, no child had an increase in temperature, whereas in the comparison group it was observed in 2% of patients on day 7 and in 1% of children on day 10 of treatment. The inclusion of zinc drugs also has a positive effect on the rate of elimination of the main clinical manifestations of acute intestinal infections of various etiologies (viral, bacterial and their associations), which, as a result, helps to reduce the length of hospital stay and has both a clinical and economic effect.