Diarrhoea and Malnutrition in Childhood

Content: 
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages v-vi
Contributors, Pages vii-xii
1 - The interrelationships between chronic diarrhoea and malnutrition, Pages 1-6
2 - The relation between weaning practices and patterns of morbidity from diarrhoea: an urban Gambian case study, Pages 7-13
3 - The impact of acute diarrhoea of different aetiologies on food intake in children, Pages 14-18
4 - The maintenance of mucosal integrity, Pages 19-22
5 - The effect of malnutrition on gut structure, function and healing after injury, Pages 23-28
6 - Which bacteria damage the gut and/or predispose to chronic diarrhoea?, Pages 29-39
Part 1 - Causes and consequences, Pages 40-42
Part 2 - In malnourished children, Pages 43-49
8 - Shigellosis, Pages 50-59
Part 1 - Nutritional importance, Pages 60-67
Part 2 - Giardiasis: impact on child growth, Pages 68-78
Part 3a - Cryptosporidium: another gut pathogen?, Pages 79-81
Part 3b - Cryptosporidium in the post-enteritis syndrome, Pages 82-84
Part 1 - Trichuriasis in Africa and the Caribbean, Pages 85-90
Part 2 - Trichuriasis in St Lucia, Pages 91-96
11 - Chronic diarrhoea, malabsorption and the role of viruses, Pages 97-102
12 - Do repeated attacks of acute diarrhoea cause chronic diarrhoea?, Pages 103-106
Part 1 - Delayed recovery in childhood, Pages 107-112
Part 2 - Body-weights, bacterial infections, acute gastroenteritis and tendency to chronicity, Pages 113-116
14 - Theoretical and practical evidence for involvement of the colon in diarrhoeal diseases, Pages 117-122
Part 1 - Rotavirus and malnutrition, Pages 123-128
Part 2 - Gastroenteritis and its impact on nutrition in Asian and Caucasian infants in East London, Pages 129-134
Part 1 - Malnutrition and the exocrine pancreas, Pages 135-141
Part 2 - Pancreatic function in malnourished children, Pages 142-146
Part 1 - Hepatic dysfunction and malnutrition in the experimental animal, Pages 147-156
Part 2 - Hepatic dysfunction and malnutrition in children, Pages 157-165
18 - Gastrointestinal structure and function in measles, Pages 166-170
Part 1 - The effects of nutritional deficiency on systemic and local immunity: implication for gastrointestinal disease, Pages 171-177
Part 2 - Immunity in malnutrition without infection in preschool children, Pages 178-184
Part 1 - Temporary syndromes of food intolerance: pathology and mechanisms of food allergy, Pages 185-192
Part 2 - The role of cow\'s milk protein intolerance in chronic diarrhoea in a developing community, Pages 193-199
Part 3 - Permanent food intolerance: the role of coeliac disease, Pages 200-202
Part 1 - The global magnitude of diarrhoeal disease in young children, Pages 203-205
Part 2 - Chronic diarrhoea in childhood: some epidemiological features, Pages 206-213
Part 1 - How protective is breast-feeding in diarrhoeal diseases?, Pages 214-220
Part 2 - Promotion of breast-feeding, Pages 221-224
Part 1 - Human breast milk in the management of protracted diarrhoea of infancy, Pages 225-228
Part 2 - The role of colostrum, Pages 229-232
Part 3 - Home-made rehydration solutions, Pages 233-241
Index, Pages 243-249