title: Treatment practices among children ill with diarrhea
unit_of_measure: Percent
linearized_input: Treatment practices among children ill with diarrhea | Percent | (Health provider consulted) (Given oral rehydration salt/home solution) (Given antibiotic) (55) (30) (37)
table_text: Table 11.11 shows that, for the majority of children ill with diarrhea, feeding practices did not conform to the recommended practices. Fluids were increased for only around one-quarter of the children ill with diarrhea. n about one-fifth of the cases, the mother said that the child was either given nothing to drink (5 percent) or much less fluid than normal (14 percent), while 28 percent of the children received somewhat less than the normal amount of liquids. Feeding practices also were not optimal. Rather than continuing to feed the child, which is the recommended practice, mothers reported that more than half of children (57 percent) were given less than the normal amount to eat, and 9 percent were not given anything to eat at all.
target: Table 11.11 shows that, for the majority of children ill with diarrhea, feeding practices did not conform to the recommended practices.