Browsing College of Health Sciences (CHS) by Subject "Fever"
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Access to health care for febrile children in Uganda: symptom recognition, care seeking practices and provider choice
(Karolinska Institutet and Makerere University, 2009)Background: Febrile illnesses including malaria and pneumonia are leading causes of death among children under five in Uganda. Despite government efforts to increase health care access by offering free services at government ... -
Clinicians’ malaria diagnostic practices among patients presenting with fever in Kampala : an area of declining malaria transmission
(Makerere University, 2020-01)Uganda fever management guidelines recommend that all cases of fever should have a laboratory diagnosis for malaria before treatment. We sought to evaluate the clinicians’ malaria diagnostic practices, associated factors, ... -
D-xylose absorption in Ugandan patients with fever
(1973)Using 25gm oral dose D-xylose tolerance test was performed on 19 normal subjects and 24 subjects with fever. In the normal subjects, blood D-xylose levels showed a peak between one and two hours and then declined gradually ... -
The Influence of pre-hospital treatment of fever on severity of malaria among children 6-59 months presenting at Mulago Hospital: A case-control study
(Makerere University, 2014)Introduction: Delivery of prompt and adequate treatment for malaria at the community level remains a strategy to reduce the burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. As a result of this many patients with suspected malaria ... -
The influence of pre-hospital treatment of fever on severity of malaria among children 6-59 months presenting at Mulago Hospital: A case-control study.
(Makerere University, 2014)Introduction: Delivery of prompt and adequate treatment for malaria at the community level remains a strategy to reduce the burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. As a result of this many patients with suspected malaria ... -
Malaria indices in children from the urban and peri-urban areas of Kampala
(1977-02)Malaria in man is the term given to the acute or chronic infections commonly caused by four species of protozoa parasites belonging to genus plasmodium. Malaria is characterized by fever which tends to be paroxysmal, by ... -
The mothers’ experience of their infants’ teething at three different settings in Uganda and South Africa.
(2004)‘Teething’ – a common subject of discussion among nursing mothers has been held responsible for a variety of childhood ailments by both health professionals and parents. It appears to be a social construct coined by society ... -
Some aspects of malaria in Mulago Hospital
(1974)Thirty patients with malaria were studied. Seven had cerebral malaria, ten severe and thirteen non-severe malaria. Age ranged from seven weeks to eight years with equal sex distribution. All were febrile except two infants ...