Fecal Output

Table 1: Fecal Output for Different Populations Population Age Number of Subjects Mean Standard Deviation References Healthy people Healthy Nigerian Children 6 months to 5 years 2 109.3 mL/day 54.07 Akinbami et al. 1995 Healthy Nigerian Adult Adult 2 143.3 g/day 48.5 Akinbami et al. 1995 Ill people Indian Children with diarrheaa 3 to 24 months 70 126 g/kilogram of body weight/hour during initial 24h and rehydration period 33.6 Dutta et al. 2000 Tunisian Adult with acute diarrheab Adult 70 499 g/day 284 Hamza et al. 1999

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Hamza, H., Ben Khalifa, H., Baumer, P., Berard, H. and Lecomte, J.M. (1999) Racecadotril versus placebo in the treatment of acute diarrhoea in adults. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics 13, 15-19. Full text