DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i03.009

Pages: 895-900

It was an observational study. The study was conducted in the Department of Paediatrics, Dr. Mr. Khan Shishu(children) Hospital and ICH, Mirpur-2, Dhaka over a period of 6 months from July 2014 to December 2014.A total of 30 hospitalized children with clinical/or laboratory diagnosis of enteric fever admitted in the above mention place were the study population. The aim of this study was to evaluate the duration of injection ceftriaxone treatment in children with enteric fever in culture positive cases. .A total of 30 hospitalized children with clinical/or laboratory diagnosis of enteric fever admitted in the above mention place were selected as the study subjects. In our study, most of the study subjects were more than 8 years of age and mean age was (8.4 ± 2.8) in the range of 2-12 years. Females were dominating the sex distribution which are 19(63%) and most of the study subjects were in middle class status which are 16(53.3%) in the socio-economic distribution. Fever were the common symptoms of all study participants and continues 5-6 days most of the participants 19(63.3%). In addition, Headache were the another most common symptoms 7(23.3) in the study subjects. Signs were Hepatomegaly, Splenomegaly and Coated tongue 53.3 %, 43.3% and 93.3% respectively. Most of the study participants’ 17(56.7%) weight at admission were less than 20 kg. Weight was steady at admission and after 1 month, therefore the weight began to increase gradually and brought 21.8 ± 4.9 kg after 2 months and 21.9 ± 5.1kg after 3 months, which were statistically significant. The mean temperature before treatment was 102.1 ± 2 0F which decreased about 97.9 ± 10F after 1 month and increase to after 2 months (98 0F) thereafter the temperature experienced a steady after 3 months of treatment (98 0F). The difference of temperature at each level of evaluation throughout the observation period was statistically significant (p < 0.001). The study findings depicts that 50% of the patients had a hist