title: [Surveillance of diarrhea in children aged under five in Youxian county, Hunan].
abstract: Surveillance analysis of cases with diarrhea in children aged under five years, who visited and were treated at village clinics in rural areas of Youxian County during June 1992 to May 1993, was conducted. Children aged below five under surveillance averaged 1 346, and 223 cases of diarrhea were reported, with a reported incidence of 0.17 per person-year. Incidence was higher in 6-month and one-year groups with a peak during May to August. But no sex difference of diarrhea incidence existed. Use of oral rehydration solution (ORS) accounted for 87.89% of the cases, with an average of 1.56 packages (each package containing 500 ml) per case, and 95.52% of dehydrated cases used ORS, with average of 2.02 packages per case. Use of intravenous rehydration account for 1.79% of the cases, 58.74% of them used antibiotics and 16.03% of them used more than two kinds of antibiotics, and 47.98% of the cases used both ORS and antibiotics. Occurrence of blood, mucus and pus in stool accounted for 12.64% of the total cases. All indices of surveillance in 1993 improved, compared with those in September 1991.
authors.affiliation: Hunan Provincial Hygienic and Anti-epidemic Station, Changsha.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Ou
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D005440:Fluid Therapy; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009017:Morbidity