Antibiotic use prior to attending a large diarrheal disease hospital among preschool children suffering from bloody or non-bloody diarrhea: A cross-sectional study conducted in Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Among diarrheal children, injudicious use of antibiotics is a major public health concern particularly in low- and middle-income countries. There are evidence-based guidelines by the World Health Organization (WHO) to prescribe antibiotics for bloody diarrhea in children. There is a scarcity of published data regarding the judicious use of antibiotics for bloody diarrhea in children. So, we aimed to evaluate the presenting features of bloody diarrhea at hospital with prior antibiotic use at home and the prevalence of injudicious antibiotic use for bloody diarrhea in children.

Methods

We screened 7,289 children aged 24-59 months with diarrhea (≥3 loose stools in the last 24 h) at Dhaka Hospital, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr

SUBMITTER: Bashar SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11593761 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature