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P Soeparto

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PubMed1998

Cryptosporidiosis in Indonesia: a hospital-based study and a community-based survey.

Hospital-based and community-based studies were conducted to understand the prevalence and mode of transmission of Cryptosporidium parvum infection in Surabaya, Indonesia. In both studies people with and without diarrhea were examined for oocysts. A community-based survey included questionnaires to a community and stool examination of cats. Questionnaires covered demographic information, health status, and hygienic indicators. In the hospital, C. parvum oocysts were found in 26 (2.8%) of 917 patients with diarrhea and 15 (1.4%) of 1,043 control patients. The most susceptible age was less than two years old. The prevalence was higher during the rainy season. A community-based study again showed that C. parvum oocysts were frequently detected in diarrhea samples (8.2%), exclusively during rainy season. Thirteen (2.4%) of 532 cats passed C. parvum oocysts. A multiple logistic regression model indicated that contact with cats, rain, flood, and crowded living conditions are significant risk factors for Cryptosporidium infection.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1982

Anti-diarrhoeal drugs.

Drugs that have been used or investigated in the treatment of diarrhoea in infancy were presented, such as stool thickening agent kaolin-pectin, anti-motility agent loperamide, anti-secretory agents such as chlorpromazine, aspirin, indomethacin, and antibiotics. Also treatment with oral rehydration solution was discussed from studies carried out. The present clinical studies demonstrate that most of anti-diarrhoeal drugs are not superior than the usual mode of fluid therapy in the treatment of infantile diarrhoea. The use of these anti-diarrhoeal drugs in the community, therefore, should be considered carefully since they may distract from the essential treatment--oral rehydration.

Anti-Bacterial Agents↗
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Endoscopic examinations in children with recurrent abdominal pain.

Much difficulties are often encountered in finding the underlying cause of recurrent abdominal pain. Clinical features may vary from one patient to the other and occasionally from one episode to the next even in the same child. The recent development of fibre optic endoscopy may well prove to have a useful diagnostic technique, particularly in those children in whom other investigations are inconclusive. The result of endoscopic examinations in children with recurrent abdominal pain comprising of 62 children aged between 3-13 years were as follows: erosion in 7 children, oesophagitis in 4 children, duodenitis in 3 children, spasm of the pylorus in 2 children, and normal findings were found in 30 children. Of the 30 patients with "normal" endoscopic findings, 7 had psychosomatic problems, 4 had allergy, 4 had urinary tract infection, 2 showed giardiasis, one had epilepsy, 1 was treated as pulmonary tuberculosis, where as in 11 patients organic as well as nonorganic abnormalities could not be found. There seem to be of no significant correlation between the endoscopic and upper gastrointestinal series findings. Endoscopy seem to be of a safe and reliable tool in the diagnosis of a number of organic intestinal lesions otherwise not detected by ordinary investigations.

Abdominal Pain↗