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Dialogue on Diarrhoea Online

The international newsletter on the control of diarrhoeal diseases 
1980-1995 

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The first issue was published in May 1980.The last of a total of 60 issues, during its 15 years, was published in May 1995.

Rehydration Project has converted, to HTML and PDF formats, all 60 issues and 16 supplements of Dialogue on Diarrhoea and has produced Dialogue of Diarrhoea Online.

Over 600 photos and drawings are included in the database. 

Published four times a year, Dialogue on Diarrhoea acted as a forum for readers to exchange ideas and share experiences.  Regular features included guidelines on diagnosis and treatment, training tips, information on rational drug use, research updates and feedback from the field.

In addition to information on clinical management, the newsletter addressed issues which affected health workers' and families' abilities for care for children, such as communication skills, organisation of health centres and hospitals, health education and training.

The newsletter covered the latest developments, new ideas and solutions to problems, the organization and results of controlled field studies and the establishment of new national and local programmes in diarrhoeal diseases control in developing countries.

While detailed scientific arguments are pursued in academic journals, this newsletter focused on promoting the exchange of practical information and experience related to the effective prevention and treatment of diarrhoea.

Dialogue on Diarrhoea was meant for everyone who cares about unnecessary suffering and deaths from diarrhoeal diseases. 

There is much information in these issue that is valuable and useful. Readers are reminded, however, that treatment guidelines and health care practices change over time. If you are in doubt, please refer to WHO's up-to-date Dehydration Treatment Plans
   

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Aetiology

Causes and control of chronic diarrhoea: a vicious cycle  10 (4-5)
Chickens and childhood diarrhoea   45 (5)
Clinicians' guide to aetiology  7 (6)
Comment (on helminths)  47 (6)
Diarrhoea agents in the environment  7 (2)
Diarrhoea and AIDS  35 (3)
Diarrhoea pathophysiology: mechanisms of diarrhoea and why they matter  35 (4-5)
Environment, behaviour and the spread of diarrhoea: soiled saris  26 (5)
Environment, behaviour and the spread of diarrhoea: a vulnerable age  26 (4)
Feeding bottles: a source of faecal contamination  37 (3)
Feeding during diarrhoea  53 (4)
Finding the guilty organisms  7 (4-5)
Intestinal parasites: causes or contributors?  12 (3)
Laboratories and diarrhoeal disease control:collection, transport and examination  11 (4-5)
Organisms in OR fluid: oral rehydration with dirty water?  4 (7)
Searching for viruses: acute childhood diarrhoea  14 (7-8)
The seasons and diarrhoea: The Gambia and Bangladesh  26 (3)
Simple laboratory investigations into diarrhoea  11 (6)
Symposium on chronic diarrhoea  9 (2)
Water, excreta, behaviour and diarrhoea  4 (4-5)
Water and sanitation are not enough  47 (5-6)
Worms and community health  43 (1)
Zinc-diarrhoea link  56 (7)

Cholera

Health update insert: Controlling cholera  52
Clinical update insert: Persistent diarrhoea  48
Antibiotic resistance to cholera  1 (2-3)
Cholera: epidemic control  45 (2-3)
Cholera: facing up to the threat  49 (5)
Cholera update  32 (2-3)
Control strategies  12 (6)
New strain of cholera reported  53 (8)
The devastating disease (history of cholera)  12 (4)
The most feared of diarrhoeal diseases: WHO update  7 (3)
Recent developments  12 (5)
Tamed or fighting back?  13 (7)
Water handling and cholera  26 (2)

Escherichia Coli

Stickiness and sickness  2 (3)

Parasites

Amoebiasis  27 (7)
Cryptosporidia  27 (4)
Giardia  27 (6)
Intestinal parasites: causes or contributors?  12 (3)
An intestinal zoo  27 (3)
Parasites and diarrhoea: research needs  27 (3)
Strongyloides  27 (5)
Trichuriasis  27 (4-5)
Wall chart: Helminth eggs and larvae found in faeces (review)  35 (2)

Rotavirus

Expectations for a vaccine  16 (3)
Viral diarrhoea - a big step forward  1 (3)

Shigella

Dysentery: an overview  25 (4)
Soap, water and shigellosis  2 (3)

Drug therapy

Health update insert: diarrhoea and drugs  50
Antibiotic resistance  43 (2)
Antibiotic resistance  42 (5)
Antibiotics and diarrhoea  45 (7)
Antimotility drugs  43 (4-5)
Aspirin and chlorpromazine  5 (7)
Cautious prescription: drugs and the treatment of diarrhoeal diseases  8 (4-5)
Countering misleading marketing  55 (6)
Diarrhoea management - Britain lags behind  45 (8)
Diarrhoea management: drug treatment  25 (5)
Drugs and diarrhoea  42 (1-3)
Educating drug sellers  55 (2)
Folate for diarrhoea?  43 (2)
Guidelines on drug use for children with diarrhoea  55 (7)
Hospital practice foreshadows changes in GP prescribing  16 (2)
Medicines with care  25 (6)
North-south network (Health Action International)  55 (5)
Physicians' behaviour  43 (3)
Prescribing practice: what changes behaviour?  45 (6)
Regulation plus education  55 (4)
Successful campaign  55 (6)

Antimicrobials

Antibiotic resistance to cholera  1 (2-3)
Iran: attitudes to treatment and use of antibiotics  33 (2)

Epidemiology

Health update insert: Epidemic dysentery  55
Animals and infection: a danger to human health?  45 (4)
ARI and diarrhoea: a natural collaboration  31 (6-7)
CDD programmes: WHO, USAID, UNICEF  34 (1-2,8)
Child spacing: impact on health  34 (4)
Cholera: control strategies  12 (6)
Cholera update  32 (2-3)
Cholera: WHO update  7 (3)
Diarrhoea in urban slums: Bombay and Karachi  31 (4-5)
Dysentery: an overview  25 (4)
Environment, behaviour and the spread of diarrhoea: a vulnerable age  26 (4)
Environment, behaviour and the spread of diarrhoea: soiled saris  26 (5)
Food borne illness: a world overview  36 (2)
Teknaf, Bangladesh  5 (2)
Urban priority: study in Sri Lanka  17 (2)
Viewpoint: Indonesia (CDD study)  34 (4)
Viewpoint: Papua New Guinea (diarrhoea mortality and management)  34 (5)
WHO study: breastfeeding  17 (3)

Health education and training

Health education

Health Education insert: Teaching tools and techniques  39
A choice of training methods  55 (3)
A good question  58 (3)
Active listening  58 (4-5)
Advising mothers  58 (2)
Advising on home management of diarrhoea  50 (4)
Child-to-Child  60 (6)
Clear and appropriate messages: promoting ORT correctly  23 (5)
Cooperating on communications  12 (2)
Counselling in a hospital setting  59 (3)
A diarrhoea game  29 (7)
Early learning about ORT: children can be teachers  29 (7)
Educating drug sellers  55 (2)
Filling the information gap: better communication about diarrhoeal disease  9 (4-5)
Getting the message across  3 (6)
Health education for diarrhoea  3 (4-5)
Health education materials: simple but not easy  14 (6)
How to help a woman to re-establish lactation  50 (3)
Hygiene education  30 (4-5)
Learning from people  57 (3)
North Yemen: combining science with tradition  15 (7)
Participatory learning   60 (2)
Participatory tools   60 (45)
Plain language is best  58 (6)
Promoting the benefits of breastfeeding  50 (2)
Promoting ORT: integrating mass media, print and visual aids  14 (4-5)
Putting it into practice  58 (6)
Quality consultations  58 (7)
Sahel nurses training scheme  50 (5)
Successful community involvement  54 (3)
Taking a partnership approach  51 (6)
Teaching methods   60 (7)
Training health care workers to counsel breastfeeding mothers  59 (2)
Teaching aids: audio-visual materials  19 (6)
UK nurses need basic ORT training  50 (4)
Visual aids: a range of uses   60 (3)
When do people seek help... and who from?  48 (2-3)
Working with pharmacists in Kenya  55 (4)

Training

CDD training activities: step-by-step planning  38 (5)
Channels for promoting ORT: the community pharmacist  24 (7)
Channels for promoting ORT: the traditional healer  24 (6)
Diarrhoea Training Unit  38 (4-5)
ORT: improving medical education  29 (3)
ORT in practice: training methods  38 (3)
Practical advice: evaluation of training  29 (6)
Practical advice: how to teach  38 (7)
The physician and ORT: recent initiatives  29 (4-5)
WHO training courses for diarrhoeal disease control:

• convincing the doctors   13 (5)
• supervisory skills  13 (4)

Immunisation

Health Basics insert: Immunisation  30
Measles immunisation in diarrhoeal disease control  16 (4-5)
Rotavirus: expectations for a vaccine  16 (3)
Solving problems locally: national immunisation programme, The Gambia  16 (6)
Typhoid vaccines: outlook for the future  16 (7)
Viral diarrhoea: developments in diagnosis and vaccines  48 (7)

Laboratory Services

Laboratories and diarrhoeal disease control: collection, transport and examination   11 (4-5)
Reviews: books for medical laboratory workers  11 (7)
Simple laboratory investigations into diarrhoea  11 (6)
Viewpoint: local laboratory skills  38 (2)

Nutrition

Breastfeeding

Health Basics insert: Breastfeeding  37
Breastfeeding: helping to reduce the severity of diarrhoea  17 (4-5)
Breastfeeding in emergencies  59 (7)
Breastfeeding prevents infection  43 (2)
Breastfeeding promotion: the right start  38 (6)
Breastfeeding twins  51 (7)
Congratulations to the mothers  59 (4)
Exclusive breastfeeding (letter)  54 (8)
Exclusive breastfeeding  49 (2)
Extra drinks are unnecessary  49 (3)
Help for breastfeeding mothers  46 (2-3)
How to feed a baby who cannot breastfeed  41 (6)
How to help a woman to re-establish lactation  50 (3)
'I do not have enough milk.'  53 (5)
Passport to life: breastmilk banking in India  17 (7)
Perspectives on human milk banking  17 (6)
Portugal: rediscovering breastfeeding  17 (2)
Promoting breastfeeding in urban communities  39 (6)
Promoting the benefits of breastfeeding  50 (2)
Training health care workers to counsel breastfeeding mothers  59 (2)
WHO study  17 (3)
Women, work and breastfeeding  59 (5)
Zealous promotion of breastfeeding is not the answer (letter)  60 (8)

Feeding and diarrhoea

Bangladesh: better food for the same money  10 (3)
Carry on feeding: report from Bangladesh  15 (5)
Enriched ORT  15 (4)
Feeding and chronic diarrhoea  10 (6)
Feeding the anorexic child  23 (6)
Home fluids: food or drink?  23 (5)
Lactose intolerance  37 (6-7)
Leaf concentrate consumption and diarrhoea  33 (2)
Persistent diarrhoea: appropriate dietary management  37 (4-5)
Persuading children with diarrhoea to eat  6 (6)
Preventing food borne infections  36 (4)
Promoting better nutrition: leaf nutrient  23 (3)
Sources of potassium  5 (7)
WHO meeting report and guidelines on nutritional management of persistent diarrhoea   37 (2-3)

General

Action on improving diets  53 (7)
Addressing urban families' nutrition  56 (6)
An introduction to nutrition  53 (2-3)
Diarrhoea and potassium  41 (7)
Facts about food hygiene  56 (2)
Feeding during diarrhoea  53 (4)
Growing food: growing healthy  46 (6-7)
Golden rules for safe food preparation  56 (3
Good sources of vitamin A  53 (7)
HIV and infant feeding  59 (6)
Improved cookstoves save fuel and money  56 (5)
Providing more than just low-cost food  56 (6)
Soya bean success  50 (7)
The dangers of 'follow-up' feeds  46 (4-5)
Vitamin A and children's health  53 (6)
What changes are possible in practice?  56 (4)

Growth monitoring

Health Basics insert: Growth monitoring  24
Practical issues in growth monitoring: diarrhoea and growth  23 (4)

Malnutrition and diarrhoea

Carry on feeding: report from Bangladesh  15 (5)
Diarrhoea is a nutritional disease  24 (4)
The diarrhoea-malnutrition complex  6 (4-5)
Persistent diarrhoea: adding to malnutrition  23 (7-8)

Vitamin A

Diarrhoeal diseases: combating the long term effects  21 (4-5)
Vitamin A and diarrhoea: reducing the risk?  33 (4-5)
Vitamin A: preventing blinding malnutrition  21 (6)

Weaning

Health Basics insert: Weaning  32
Breast to family diet  15 (6)
Fermented food: reducing contamination  40 (3)
Adapting food technologies: but what do mothers think?  40 (6-7)
Improved weaning foods: germinated flours  40 (4)
Improved weaning foods: sprouted grains, peasand beans  40 (5)
Weaning foods and diarrhoea  29 (2)
Weaning foods: breaking the chain of infection  36 (5)

Oral rehydration therapy

Health Basics insert: Oral rehydration therapy  19
 

A useful guide to giving ORT at home  52 (7)
Back to basics: what is ORT?  52 (2-3)
Cereal-based ORT  41 (4-5)
Channels for promoting ORT: the community pharmacist  24 (7)
Channels for promoting ORT: the traditional healer  24 (6)
Diarrhoea management - Britain lags behind  45 (8)
Glass-sized SSS (letter)  50 (7)
Health workers opinions: Ghana, Sierra Leone and China  52 (6)
How to... make a rice-based drink for oral rehydration  41 (3)
ICORT I: First International Conference on ORT  14 (1-2)
ICORT II: Second International Conference on ORT  24 (1-5)
ICORT III: Third International Conference on ORT  36 (8)
Improving ORT delivery: problem solving research  20 (7)
Issues in oral rehydration  1 (4-5)
Key issues in ORT  34 (6)
Oral rehydration in the home  28 (4)
ORS: better than drugs  43 (2)
ORS is useful for treating adults  45 (8)
ORT success in the Soviet Union  47 (8)
Questions and answers about ORT  47 (7)
Refugee camps: reducing diarrhoea  27 (2)
Super ORS recipe (letter)  50 (7)
Swing to ORT in Britain  16 (2)
The experience of India  52 (4)
The pioneering years  52 (5)
Understanding dehydration  52 (4)
UNICEF: ORT in practice  13 (6)
USAID: review of ORT activities  20 (2)
What drinks to give: carrying out a survey  28 (4)
WHO: Diarrhoeal Diseases Control Programme  1 (6)
WHO CDD Programme -five years on: a review  18 (4-5)
WHO guidelines: selection of home fluids  41 (2)

Management of diarrhoea

Home fluids: food or drink?  23 (5)
Promoting ORT correctly  23 (5)
Diarrhoea and refugee communities  21 (3)
How to recognise dehydration  2 (6)
Oral rehydration with dirty water?  4 (7)
ORT: attitudes and beliefs about diarrhoea - the mother's role  2 (4-5)
ORS: quantity to give  6 (7)
Potassium losses and replacement in diarrhoea  3 (7)
Successful ORT  22 (6)
Using a nasogastric tube  26 (6)
WHO decision-making guidelines  28 (5)

Infants

Dealing with diarrhoea in newborn infants: approaches to rehydration  22 (4)
Dealing with diarrhoea in newborn infants: careful management  22 (5)

Formula

Advances with rice powder ORS  19 (7)
Coconut water for rehydration?  26 (2)
Enriched ORT  15 (4)
ORS: flavouring and colouring  32 (2)
ORS flavouring and colouring follow-up  33 (3)
ORS: new formula gives longer shelf life  19 (2)
ORS: potassium losses and replacement  3 (7)
Rice based ORS  34 (7)

Measuring ORS

Correct measures: home made ORS  35 (6)
Jamaican study: preparation of sugar-salt solution by mothers  5 (2)
Using ORS packets to measure water volume?  33 (2-3)

Sanitation and hygiene

Health Basics insert: Water and sanitation  31
Health Extra insert: Practical hygiene  36
Children and sanitation  8 (2)
Communities, water and health  4 (3)
Environmental health in the Caribbean  36 (7)
Environmental health research (WHO and IDRC)  5 (4-5)
Food borne illness: world overview  36 (2)
Hygiene education: Bangladesh  30 (4-5)
Hygiene, food safety and diarrhoea: case study, Leeds, UK  36 (3)
Improving environmental hygiene: how to plan a community based project  36 (6)
International drinking water supply and sanitation decade: technology is not the bottleneck  5 (5)
Poor urban neighbourhoods: water and sanitation 'dos and don'ts'  31 (3)
Water, excreta, behaviour and diarrhoea  4 (4-5)
Water handling and cholera  26 (6)

Hand washing

How to make soap  18 (6)
Soap, water and shigellosis  2 (3)
Why do mothers wash their hands?  39 (5)

Latrines

Appropriate latrines  5 (6)
On-site sanitation  18 (7)
Zimbabwean latrines  19 (3)
Zimbabwe: encouraging families to build latrines  30 (7)

Survey and evaluation methods

Brazil: a RAP survey  39 (4)
Carrying out a survey on attitudes to diarrhoea  9 (6-7)
Evaluation means asking: how are we doing?  51 (2-3)
Evaluation of training  29 (6)
Improving ORT delivery: problem solving research  20 (7)
Investigating beliefs: collecting information  39 (3)
Investigating beliefs: research methods  39 (2)
Operational research in the public sector: implementation and priorities  20 (4-5)
ORT in practice: training methods  38 (3)
Taking a partnership approach  51 (6)
hat drinks to give: carrying out a survey  28 (4)
WHO's household survey  51 (4-5)
Zimbabwe: treating diarrhoea early  20 (3)

Traditional remedies / local beliefs

Attitudes and beliefs about diarrhoea: the mother's role  2 (4-5)
Beliefs and behaviour: the Maasai in Kenya and Tanzania  39 (8)
Beliefs of rural mothers about diarrhoea in Orissa, India  39 (7)
Brazil: a RAP survey  39 (4)
Channels for promoting ORT: the traditional healer  24 (6)
Clear and appropriate messages: promoting ORT correctly  23 (5)
Diarrhoea in Nicaragua: causes and local remedies  39 (7)
Healers and health services: working together  48 (4-6)
Home fluids: food or drink?  23 (5)
Investigating beliefs: collecting information  39 (3-4)
Investigating beliefs: research methods  39 (2)
North Yemen: combining science with tradition  15 (7)
Problems with purging practices  48 (6)
Rice water and diarrhoea  6 (2)
Uganda: newborns, 'false teeth' and diarrhoea  39 (6)
'We tell mothers to use ORS and they don't.'  48 (4)
Why do mothers wash their hands?  39 (5)

Urban Health

Addressing urban families' nutrition  56 (6)
Case study, Leeds, UK: hygiene, food safety and diarrhoea  36 (3)
Diarrhoea in urban slums: Bombay  31 (4-5)
Diarrhoea in urban slums: Karachi  31 (5)
Jordan: diarrhoea and the urban poor  32 (6)
Poor urban neighbourhoods: water and sanitation 'dos and don'ts'  31 (3)
Providing more than just low-cost food  56 (6)
Promoting breastfeeding in urban communities  39 (6)
Urban alternatives: the dry-box  57 (6-7)
What changes are possible in practice?  56 (4)

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Behaviour

Health update insert: Refugees and displaced communities  45
Animals and infection: a danger to human health?  45 (4)
Chickens and childhood diarrhoea  45 (5)
Emergency measures  57 (5)
Facts about food hygiene  56 (2)
How to make a 'tippy tap'  54 (7)
Involving the private sector  54 (5)
Learning about what people do and why  47 (2-4)
Learning from people  57 (3)
Low cost sanitation  43 (7)
Prevention priorities  54 (2)
Sanitation: an unmet challenge  57 (2)
Simpler, cheaper VIP latrines  57 (4)
Successful community involvement  54 (3)
Soap, mud or ashes  54 (4)
The sustainable use of soap  54 (5)
'Tippy tap' saves water  54 (6)
Urban alternatives: the dry-box  57 (6-7)
Water and sanitation are not enough  47 (5-6)
Water and waste disposal  49 (6-7)
What changes are possible in practice?  56 (4)

Water supply

Health Basics insert: Water and sanitation  31
A stimulus to PHC?  30 (4)
Choosing a handpump  4 (6)
Communities, water and health  4 (3)
Mozambique: water supply and sanitation programme  5 (3)
Nepal: water supply and sanitation programme  5 (3)
Poor urban neighbourhoods: water and sanitation 'dos and don'ts'  31 (3)
Teknaf - impact of water supply and sanitation  5 (2)
Teknaf - water and sanitation: health impact?  18 (2)
Thailand: village water tanks  31 (2)
The Mirzapur project (handpumps)  30 (7)
Water, excreta, behaviour and diarrhoea  4 (4-5)
Water programme in Nigeria  18 (3)
Water supply, sanitation and diarrhoea:

• the role of women  30 (3)
• a stimulus to PHC?  30 (4)
• hygiene education  30 (4)
• improved facilities  30 (5)

Water purification

Disinfecting with sunlight  5 (2)
Practical advice: water purification  30 (6)

Women

Attitudes and beliefs about diarrhoea: the mother's role  2 (4-5)
Child spacing: impact on health  34 (3)
Involving mothers (letter from Uganda)  9 (3)
Water supply, sanitation and diarrhoea: the role of women  30 (3)