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CLINICAL STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF SHUNTHYADI YOGA ON THE CONSISTENCY AND FREQUENCY OF DIARRHEAL EPISODES IN CHRONIC RECURRENT CHILDHOOD DIARRHEA

Dr. Kapil Patil*, Dr. Rakesh K. Nagar and Dr. Nilima Chaudhari

Abstract

Background: Most of the digestive diseases are chronic or recurrent and lead to more disability than acute transient illness, chronic recurrent diarrhea is one of the most common disease in childhood, which arrest the proper growth and development of child. It affecting 3-5 billion cases per year and accounts for over 20% of all deaths in under five year children‟s. Design: Randomized control trial Age group: 1 – 5 yrs. of either sex Materials & Methods: 60 cases were selected from Outpatient Department and Inpatient Department of National Institute of Ayurveda and local survey of school/Aanganwari of Jaipur city for the study. That were satisfied the inclusion and exclusion criteria. They were randomly divided in Two groups, 30 patients in each group. In Group A Trial Drug Shunthyadi Yoga was given in syrup form and in Group B zinc supplement in tablet form and probiotic in suspension form was given and sign and symptoms was assessed by proper grading. Results: Extremely significant results were seen in Group A over Group B. Conclusion: Shunthyadi Yoga showed extremely significant results in all the symptoms without any recurrences and side effects in chronic recurrent diarrhea and improves the health in all aspects where as zinc supplement and probiotic also found extremely significant but due to some side effects and recurrences it is not effective and beneficial as trial drug Shunthyadi Yoga.

Keywords: Chronic recurrent diarrhea, Shunthyadi Yoga, zinc supplement, probiotic.