Papers/PMID:23440801
Oral zinc for treating diarrhoea in children.
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews2013The record
1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint
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Zn(2+) — decreases diarrhoea duration
Very limitedEvidence strength: very limited. Human evidence with major recorded weaknesses, or non-human, uncontrolled or unverified evidence.Findingreplicated ×5“In children with persistent diarrhoea, zinc supplementation probably shortens the duration of diarrhoea by around 16 hours (MD -15.84 hours, 95% CI -25.43 to -6.24; 529 children, five trials, moderate quality evidence).”
Quoted verbatim from Oral zinc for treating diarrhoea in children.. - Study
- meta-analysis
- Participants
- 529
- Population
- Children aged one month to five years with persistent diarrhoea (subgroup of the review; acute diarrhoea analysed separately), oral zinc versus placebo; duration in hours
Effect -15.84 mean difference, 95% CI -25.43 to -6.24
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