What is it about?
In the rural areas advaced treatments are not feasible. Nassogastric tube plays a crucial role in salavaging children life who are moderatly or severly dehydrated children. It is cost effective and easy to use(less failure rate) compared to Intravenous resuscitation.
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Why is it important?
Intend to reduce child mortality by promoting nasogatric tube. It revels challengs and barriers toward nassogastric tube utilization for the managment of moderat and sever dehydration.
Perspectives
Writing this article was great pleasure as well as a relief. I have witnessed multiple deaths of underfive children while I was working in the rural health center. The death s were mainly attributed to inability to rehydrate the children due to failure to access vein for the adminstration of fluid that resulted delayed treatment and ultimately death of child. Now provided this article we believe the problem will get solutions.
Tsegazeab Ayele
Arba Minch University
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This page is a summary of: Assessment of practices and barriers toward nasogastric tube rehydration for moderate and severe dehydration due to diarrheal disease in under-five children among health centers in Gamo Zone, Ethiopia, PLOS One, February 2026, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0343208.
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