Summary of Study Session 5
In Study Session 5, you have learned that:
- Diarrhoea is a common illness among children under five years of age in Ethiopia.
- To assess diarrhoea in a child or young infant the steps you should take are:
- look for general danger signs
- ask for duration of diarrhoea
- assess for signs of dehydration
- ask about blood in the stool.
- Based on your findings on assessment, you classify the child for:
- Dehydration
- Persistent or severe persistent diarrhoea
- Dysentery.
- The classification and treatment in a child and a young infant are different; if a young infant has had diarrhoea for 14 days or more they should always be classified as having severe persistent diarrhoea.
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5.7 Classify diarrhoea in young infants