Zinc supplementation in the treatment of childhood pneumonia in hospitalized children /
استخدام الزنك فى علاج الالتهاب الرئوى للاطفال بالمستشفيات
Mostafa Badr Abdelrehem ; Supervised Ahmed Aly Elayadi , Mohammed Abdelfattah Abdelmotey , Mohammed Farouk Mohamed
- Cairo : Mostafa Badr Abdelrehem , 2009
- 124 P. : charts ; 25cm
Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics
This randomized controlled trial was carried on 100 children with pneumonia admitted to Children's hospital Cairo University . There were 47 male and 53 female . There age was between 2 and 60 months . They were divided into two groups zinc group who recive elemental zinc (20 mg per day ) for 14 days plus the hospital's standard antimicrobial management only