Meet the editor

Dr. Sujit K. Bhattacharya obtained his MBBS and MD (General Medicine) degrees from the University of Calcutta. He joined the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Kolkata, in 1982, and became its Director in 1994. He was appointed Additional Director-General of the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, in 2006, and joined the World Health Organization in 2009 as a Temporary International

Professional. He primarily conducted research on acute diarrheal diseases including cholera, shigellosis, rotavirus, Leishmaniasis, and HIV/AIDS. As a Principal Investigator from NICED, and in collaboration with the International Vaccine Institute, Korea, he conducted the field trial of the oral cholera vaccine in Kolkata along with his team. The vaccine is recommended by WHO for prevention of cholera. He is credited for about 500 publications and has worked in several hospitals in Kolkata during the last five years as Senior Medicine Consultant.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

Dehydration

**Section 4**

*and Wei Wang*

*by Arbianingsih Tiro*

**Section 5**

*by Abhishek Singh*

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Childhood Malnutrition **7**

**Chapter 2 9**

Dehydration **35**

**Chapter 3 37**

Treatment **49**

**Chapter 4 51**

Prevention of Acute Diarrhea **67**

**Chapter 5 69**

Introductory Chapter: Perspectives of Recent Advances

*by Fatihi Hassan Soliman Toaimah and Fysel Manthattil*

Current Knowledge and Therapeutic Strategies of

*by Muhammad Akram, Muhammad Daniyal, Aatiqa Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed Khan, Rida Zainab, Khan Usmanghani* 

Health Education to Prevent Diarrhea in Preschoolers

Herbal Medicine for Acute Diarrhea

in Research in Acute Diarrhoeal Diseases

*by Sujit K. Bhattacharya*

Childhood Malnutrition in India
