Volume 5 Issue 4 Oct.- Dec. 2022
Original Articles
EVALUATE THE ROLE OF SUSCEPTIBILITY IN ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS IN PAEDIATRIC AGE GROUP AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON HOMOEOPATHIC POSOLOGY
Bhagirathsinh Prakashbhai Chauhan
Background: Acute gastroenteritis is one of the commonest conditions for which a lot of patients are visiting a physician. Assessment of susceptibility in cases of acute gastroenteritis will help in individualizing one child from other suffering from the same disease. Susceptibility represents the internal immunity to react to external stimuli. Methods: Acute gastro enteritis during study clinical presentation of each patient in terms of location, sensation, modalities and concomitants with its intensity of the symptoms, pace of the disease and their peculiar association. Assessment of the susceptibility. Selection of potency and repetition. Result: Most of the cases showed moderate (60 %) to high (38%) susceptibility. Hence it can be concluded that infants and children have usually moderate to high susceptibility. In 77% of the cases a moderate potency was used. In few 20% treatment was started with moderate potency but ultimately it had to be stepped up. Hence it can be concluded that in pediatric age group one can start directly with a moderate potency if one is very sure of the totality.
