Papers/PMID:27996088
Oral zinc for treating diarrhoea in children.
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews2016The record
1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint
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Zn(2+) — decreases diarrhoea duration
StrongEvidence strength: strong. Randomised human trials or their synthesis, with the effect's size and interval recorded and no recorded weakness outstanding.Findingreplicated ×5“On average, zinc supplementation reduced the duration of persistent diarrhoea by around 16 hours (MD −15.84 hours, 95% CI −25.43 to −6.24 hours; 529 children, 5 trials), with no evidence of heterogeneity.”
Quoted verbatim from Oral zinc for treating diarrhoea in children.. - Study
- meta-analysis
- Participants
- 529
- Dose
- oral zinc salt at 5 mg/day or more
- Population
- Children over six months of age with persistent diarrhoea (lasting more than 14 days); oral zinc versus placebo
Effect -15.84 mean difference, 95% CI -25.43 to -6.24
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