Diarrhea prevention through food safety education

Sheth, Mini; Obrah, Monika

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“…These include personal hygiene; hand washing after using or handling the toilet, changing diapers, or caring for a person with diarrhea and before preparing or handling food (366); proper disposal of excreta; and washing of soiled materials such as clothing or bedding. The use of adequately treated water, for example, by boiling, for drinking, food preparation, and washing of fruits and vegetables is essential (57).…”

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Enteric Protozoa in the Developed World: a Public Health Perspective

et al. 2012

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SUMMARY Several enteric protozoa cause severe morbidity and mortality in both humans and animals worldwide. In developed settings, enteric protozoa are often ignored as a cause of diarrheal illness due to better hygiene conditions, and as such, very little effort is used toward laboratory diagnosis. Although these protozoa contribute to the high burden of infectious diseases, estimates of their true prevalence are sometimes affected by the lack of sensitive diagnostic techniques to detect them in clinical and environmental specimens. Despite recent advances in the epidemiology, molecular biology, and treatment of protozoan illnesses, gaps in knowledge still exist, requiring further research. There is evidence that climate-related changes will contribute to their burden due to displacement of ecosystems and human and animal populations, increases in atmospheric temperature, flooding and other environmental conditions suitable for transmission, and the need for the reuse of alternative water sources to meet growing population needs. This review discusses the common enteric protozoa from a public health perspective, highlighting their epidemiology, modes of transmission, prevention, and control. It also discusses the potential impact of climate changes on their epidemiology and the issues surrounding waterborne transmission and suggests a multidisciplinary approach to their prevention and control.

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Enteric Protozoa in the Developed World: a Public Health Perspective

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“…5 Mother is the primary caregiver for the child in almost all societies across the world. Hence the health practices along with knowledge and attitude of the mothers directly implies on the health of the child.…”

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Relationship between maternal education and socioeconomic status on knowledge, attitude and practice of mother and her child regarding acute diarrhoeal diseases

Mutalik¹,

Raje²

2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: In India, diarrhoea caused more than 130,000 child deaths in 2013. This also accounts for roughly one-fourth of all global diarrhoea deaths among children under five years of age. The incidence of diarrhoeal disease in rural India is 12% and in urban India is 9%.Acute diarrheal disease is both preventable and treatable. Untreated severe diarrhoea leads to fluid loss and it may be life-threatening especially in young children and among the people who are high risk like malnourished or have impaired immunity. Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out among the secondary high school children (8th std) Azad high school, Kasegaon to find out the relationship between maternal education and socioeconomic status on knowledge, attitude and practice of mother and her child regarding acute diarrhoeal diseases. A pre-structured and pretested questionnaire was used to get the information regarding definition, causes, signs, symptoms, treatment, preparation of ORS, prevention of diarrheal etc. Results: Nearly 57% of the mothers had school education and 10% had college education and illiteracy was 36%. As per the occupation 46.6% were farmers, 30.6% were labours and 14% were housewives. Mother’s education was significantly associated with children Knowledge, attitude whereas practice was not associated. Illiterate mothers had significant poor knowledge and attitude. Conclusions: Maternal education and maternal socio economic status has important role is ascertaining the knowledge, attitude and practice of her children regarding acute diarrhoeal diseases.

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“…Thus promotion of exclusive breastfeeding for at least 6 months, avoidance of unhygienic formula feeding, timely and adequate weaning with hygienic nutritious foods will help to prevent episodes of post-infectious PD. These must be coupled with environmental control measures and provision of safe water and safe foods [59] . In the absence of the latter, interventions to promote handwashing strategies and domestic measures to purify water are key to reducing the burden of diarrhea [60,61] .…”

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Persistent Diarrhea in Developing Countries

Bhutta¹

2005

Ann Nestlé [Engl]

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Globally diarrheal diseases account for almost a fifth of all deaths of children under 5 years, with an estimated 2.2 million deaths annually. Of these deaths, a significant proportion are related to episodes of persistent diarrhea (PD; defined as diarrhea of >14 days with growth faltering). PD has been shown to identify children with a substantially increased diarrheal burden. These account for 36–54% of all diarrhea-related deaths. Although the exact pathogenesis of PD remains unclear, most episodes are related to prior acute infectious diarrhea with prolongation of the most recent episode. This may be related to several host factors such as preexisting undernutrition, micronutrient deficiency, immune deficiency and inappropriate therapy of the most recent acute diarrheal episode. The common final event appears to be prolonged intestinal mucosal injury and ineffective repair. In contrast to post-infectious PD, some infants may have severe intractable diarrhea due to a variety of disorders, many of which have a hereditary basis. These now form the dominant type of prolonged diarrhea in developed countries. The management of PD depends upon close attention to nutritional rehabilitation and early recognition of complications. Although a variety of pathogens have been associated with PD, there is little role for oral antimicrobial therapy in the routine treatment of PD. However, attention to rehydration, appropriate screening and treatment of systemic infections and enteral nutrition rehabilitation with easily digestible diets are critical in managing such children, frequently in ambulatory settings. Administration of zinc and vitamin A may shorten the duration of PD and also help reduce recurrences. However, the most important preventive strategies for PD are exclusive breastfeeding in the first 6 months of life, continued breast feeding for 2 years with appropriate complementary feeding and optimal management of acute diarrheal episodes.

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Diarrhea prevention through food safety education

Abstract: AWW proved to be effective change agents and FSE was successful in bringing about a positive behavior modification in mothers.

Cited by 49 publications

References 6 publications

Enteric Protozoa in the Developed World: a Public Health Perspective

Enteric Protozoa in the Developed World: a Public Health Perspective

Relationship between maternal education and socioeconomic status on knowledge, attitude and practice of mother and her child regarding acute diarrhoeal diseases

Persistent Diarrhea in Developing Countries

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