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Type of the study:
A prospective clinical study will be conducted in the period between January 2018 and January 2020.
Study Setting:
Otolaryngology Department, Alexandria University Hospital. Otolaryngology Department, Assiut University Hospital.
Study tools :
Preoperative evaluation:
1. Personal
Fluid therapy is aimed to compensate for fasting which is required for surgery, to meet the ongoing fluid losses and to maintain electrolyte balance during surgery. Fluid deficit of a healthy child who is not fed parenterally may be estimated by multiplying hourly maintenance requirement for fluid
STUDY DESIGN This is a randomized controlled clinical trial.
Subjects
Inclusion criteria:
1. History of acute watery diarrhoea of <72 hrs.
2. Either sex.
3. Age - 6m to 60 months
4. Some or severe dehydration.
5. Wt for Ht <70% of NCHS median: with or without edema.
6. Dark field examination
Study site: The Dhaka and the Matlab Hospitals of ICDDR, B: Centre for Health and Population Research.
Duration: Total duration of 15 months that include data collection over a full year to capture seasonal variations in the aetiology of diarrhoea.
Sample size: Based on the yearly patient visits it