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In this study, the most reported practice among mothers towards management of their child’s diarrhea included seeing the physicians (68.9%), giving homemade fluids (52.6%), using ORS (23.0) and visiting pharmacists (20.4) (Table 2).
In this study, about 62% of mothers know the ORS, but only 53.5 % of them recognized that ORS could prevent child from getting dehydrated. The resources of information for utilizing ORS in childhood diarrhea were gained mainly from medical prescription (50.3%), followed by family (15.7%) and then by consultation of pharmacists (15.1%) as presented in Table 3.
Table 3. Mothers’ knowledge about the use of ORS