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THE CORRELATION BETWEEN FIVE DAYS OF ORAL AMOXICILLIN AND TWO DAYS OF INTRAMUSCULAR CEFTRIAXONE IN PAEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH ILLNESS AS WELL AS DIETARY INSUFFICIENCY

Dr Zuriat Khan, Dr Zunairah Zafar, Dr Seemab Shahid

Objective: The study focuses on the adequacy of correlation between five days of oral amoxicillin and two days of intramuscular ceftriaxone in cases of uncomplicated, fundamentally ailing patients with nutritional insufficiency. Material and Method: The mode of the research was RCT (Randomized controlled trial) which was carried out at Mayo Hospital, Lahore from April 2018 to November 2018. The number of simple, severe, acute dietary deficiency patients, who enrolled for research were seventy. Both the genders between the ages of six to fifty-nine months, were chosen for research. Results: The average age of the enrolled patients for research was (29.76 ± 16.91) months. Researcher divides the patients into two categories. In category “A” and “B”, the average age of the patients was (29.17 ± 17.57) & (30.34 ± 16.91), respectively. Effectiveness of therapy was recorded in twenty-five (71.43%) patients of category “A” and sixteen (45.71%) patients in category “B”. Statistically, the superior rate of treatment effectiveness was recorded in the category “A” with respect to category “B” with p-value = 0.05. Statistically, substantial-effectiveness variation was recorded among the male patients of both the categories with 0.0014 as P-value; however, unimportant variations of female patients of the dual categories were identified. Conclusion: Findings of the research presented, expressed huge effectiveness rate in intense dietary deficient patients deals with ceftriaxone IM for two days versus five days of oral amoxicillin. Higher effectiveness ratio was recorded in male patients of ceftriaxone category with respect to amoxicillin category male patients; however, unimportant variation was recorded in females patients of either research category. Inconsiderable relation between effectivity as well as age was recorded. Keywords: Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), Diarrhea, Antibiotic CBC, Cases Fatality Ratio (CFS), TFC (Therapeutic Feeding Centre).

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