Antibiotics have serious adverse reactions: diarrhea, anaphylaxis, allergies, rashes. We don't give these medications without discussing the risks and benefits and only when they're properly indicated.
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.
Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human feces are an impressive weapon of mass destruction.
Rotavirus does not cause all diarrhea, but it causes a lot of it. Instead of a single vaccine dose, however, harried nurses may have to give several, as diarrhoea makes it difficult for a child to retain anything.
You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction.
Karen: Gretchen, I'm sorry I laughed at you that time you got diarrhea at Barnes & Nobles.
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Karen: And I'm sorry for telling everyone about it.
[beat]
Karen: And I'm sorry for repeating it now.
Lillian: [Has diarrhea from food poisoning and is trying to get to a bathroom] It's happening! It happened.
Nurse Roberts: Why don't you try some of my world famous deviled eggs?
Dr. Cox: No thanks, I already had diarrhea today.
