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https://read.qxmd.com/read/35652625/consumer-knowledge-and-awareness-of-the-toxicity-and-handling-of-household-products-at-a-tertiary-care-center-in-beirut-lebanon
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hala Mostafa, Jennifer Rizk, Elie Kanaan, Hani Hamade, Rima Kaddoura, Hani Tamim, Carine Sakr, Tharwat El Zahran
Household products intoxication is a common and preventable problem. Household product hazard awareness is lacking among consumers in Lebanon, posing a public health hazard. A cross-sectional observational study was conducted at the American University of Beirut Medical Center by administering surveys to 176 adult participants. The surveys focused on demographics, awareness of product toxicity, practices used to avoid intoxication, and sources of information. Each participant was given a score for behavior and awareness...
June 2, 2022: Toxicology and Industrial Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35626777/preserved-voluntary-micturition-control-despite-early-urinary-diversion-in-infancy-a-clue-to-a-new-strategy
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Dominika Borselle, Dariusz Patkowski, Katarzyna Kiliś-Pstrusińska, Wojciech Apoznański
Micturition is an involuntary process based on spinal arcs in infants and children until a defined age. The awareness and voluntary control of voiding depends on specific areas in the central nervous system, especially cortical regions. The cells and connections between these areas develop over time and regulate the voiding process. The ability to maintain continence and to adjust physiological needs to appropriate environmental conditions is considered to be acquired through systematic behavioral education, especially toilet training...
April 23, 2022: Children
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35462258/the-third-route-a-techno-economic-evaluation-of-extreme-water-and-wastewater-decentralization
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Manel Garrido-Baserba, Irene Barnosell, Maria Molinos-Senante, David L Sedlak, Korneel Rabaey, Oliver Schraa, Marta Verdaguer, Diego Rosso, Manel Poch
Water systems need to become more locally robust and sustainable in view of increased population demands and supply uncertainties. Decentralized treatment is often assumed to have the potential to improve the technical, environmental, and economic performance of current technologies. The techno-economic feasibility of implementing independent building-scale decentralized systems combining rainwater harvesting, potable water production, and wastewater treatment and recycling was assessed for six main types of buildings ranging from single-family dwellings to high-rise buildings...
April 6, 2022: Water Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35388740/teachers-perceptions-of-children-s-access-to-toilets-in-urban-ecde-institutions-and-the-psychosocial-consequences
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Linet Imbosa Muhati-Nyakundi
ABSTRACT Access to clean and functional toilet is quintessential in meeting children's physiological and psychosocial needs in a learning environment. However, little is known on experiences of children's access to quality toilets while in preschool institutions within urban settings of sub-Saharan Africa countries. This paper draws from a study that explored experiences of vulnerable children in early childhood development education (ECDE) institutions in underserved and informal urban settings of Kenya and South Africa...
April 7, 2022: Global Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35014616/profile-of-functional-constipation-in-children-at-a-referral-hospital
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Vikas Arvindbhai Makhwana, Kakoli Acharyya, Saugata Acharyya
OBJECTIVE: To study the social, demographic and clinical profile of functional constipation (FC) in children. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was performed in a tertiary-care hospital to assess prevalence and profile of functional constipation among children (1-18 years) using Rome IV diagnostic criteria. RESULTS: Children with FC constituted 5.56% (87/1565) of hospital attendees. 64.4% were between 2-6 years old and 48.3% had a past history of use of laxatives...
January 9, 2022: Indian Pediatrics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34999687/menstrual-hygiene-practice-among-rural-adolescent-school-girls-an-intervention-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
S Khandaker, S Kabir, M R Rahman, M M Toaha, N Ferdoshi, F Islam, M S Basher
Menstruation, an essential part of the reproductive cycle, is experienced by all adolescent girls. Poor menstrual hygiene is associated with serious ill-health and drop-out from school. An intervention study was carried out to evaluate the outcome of health education on menstrual hygiene practice among randomly selected 45 adolescent girls attending in a purposively selected Shomospur Girls' High School, Khoksha at Kushtia district in 2018. Data were collected before and after intervention by pre-tested, semi-structured interview schedule with a view to explore the practice during menstruation...
January 2022: Mymensingh Medical Journal: MMJ
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34986111/urosound-a-smartwatch-based-platform-to-perform-non-intrusive-sound-based-uroflowmetry
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Laura Arjona, Luis Enrique Diez, Alfonso Bahillo Martinez, Antonio Arruza Echevarria
Leveraging consumer technology such as smartwatches to objectively and remotely assess people with voiding dysfunction could capture unique features for prompt diagnosis of a disease. This paper presents the UroSound, the first platform that performs non-intrusive sound-based uroflowmetry with a smartwatch. We study the feasibility of using a smartwatch to assess how well the urinary tract functions by processing the sound generated when the urine stream hits the water level in the toilet bowl, which can be modelled through the sound envelope...
January 5, 2022: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34762714/seclusion-in-an-enriched-environment-versus-seclusion-as-usual-a-quasi-experimental-study-using-mixed-methods
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Cornelia G J M van der Venne, Berno van Meijel, Mathijs Deen, Miranda Olff, Cornelis L Mulder
BACKGROUND: For patients, seclusion during psychiatric treatment is often a traumatic experience. To prevent such experiences, adjustments in the design of seclusion rooms have been recommended. METHODS: As there have been no empirical studies on the matter, we used a quasi-experimental design to compare the experiences in seclusion of two groups of patients: 26 who had been secluded in a room designed according to the principles of healing environment, a so called 'Enriched Environment Seclusion room' (EES), and 27 who had been secluded in a regular seclusion (RS) room...
2021: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34746497/bidet-toilet-use-may-cause-anal-symptoms-and-nosocomial-infection
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Akira Tsunoda
Electric bidet toilets are widely used in Japan and are sanitary devices, that are integral to daily life. Approximately, half of the population washed the anus before or after defecation. Cleaning the anus after defecation using the bidets contributes to hand hygiene and local comfort, and it may be effective against constipation. However, excessive bidet use potentially causes anal pruritus and anal incontinence (AI). Physicians are advised to instruct patients with anal pruritus to avoid excessive cleaning of the anus and those with AI to discontinue bidet use...
2021: Journal of the Anus, Rectum and Colon
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34622275/inflammatory-bowel-disease-related-behaviours-ibd-bx-questionnaire-development-validation-and-prospective-associations-with-fatigue
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Marta Walentynowicz, Iris van de Pavert, Liselotte Fierens, Sofie Coenen, Johan W S Vlaeyen, Andreas von Leupoldt, Lukas Van Oudenhove, Séverine Vermeire, Gert Van Assche, Marc Ferrante, Ilse Van Diest
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Disease-related behaviours that may maintain or worsen symptom burden remain largely unexplored in inflammatory bowel disease [IBD]. In this study, we developed and validated an instrument assessing IBD-related, modifiable behaviours and explored which behaviours prospectively correlate with fatigue, a debilitating and common symptom in IBD. METHODS: Initially, 72 items reflecting IBD-related behaviours were generated based on literature review and input from clinicians and people diagnosed with IBD...
May 10, 2022: Journal of Crohn's & Colitis
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34539048/electronic-faucet-powered-by-low-cost-ceramic-microbial-fuel-cells-treating-urine
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Irene Merino Jimenez, Patrick Brinson, John Greenman, Ioannis Ieropoulos
Hygienic measures are extremely important to avoid the transmission of contagious viruses and diseases. The use of an electronic faucet increases the hygiene, encourages hand washing, avoids touching the faucet for opening and closing, and it saves water, since the faucet is automatically closed. The microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology has the capability to convert environmental waste into energy. The implementation of low cost ceramic MFCs into electronic interfaces integrated in toilets, would offer a compact powering system as well as an environmentally friendly small-scale treatment plant...
September 15, 2021: Journal of Power Sources
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34174579/how-are-inequalities-generated-in-the-management-and-consequences-of-gastrointestinal-infections-in-the-uk-an-ethnographic-study
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Suzanne Rotheram, Jessie Cooper, Ben Barr, Margaret Whitehead
Gastrointestinal infections are an important global public health issue. In the UK, one in four people experience a gastrointestinal infection each year and epidemiological research highlights inequalities in the burden of disease. Specifically, poorer children are at greater risk of infection and the consequences of illness, such as symptom severity and time off work/school, are greater for less privileged groups of all ages. Gastrointestinal infections are, however, largely 'hidden' within the home and little is known about the lived experience and practices surrounding these illnesses, how they vary across contrasting socioeconomic contexts, or how inequalities in the disease burden across socioeconomic groups might come about...
June 13, 2021: Social Science & Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34130974/denosumab-and-bisphosphonate-associated-bilateral-osteonecrosis-of-the-external-auditory-canal
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Harry David True, Rupert George Ricks, Joel Anthony Smith
We present a case of non-surgically managed bilateral osteonecrosis of the external auditory canal with a history of long-term medical therapy for osteoporosis. A 79-year-old woman with severe osteoporosis and destructive osteoarthritis received >10 years of once weekly bisphosphonate therapy before switching to denosumab. Four months later, the patient presented with bilateral loss of hearing and right-sided otalgia. Necrotising otitis externa, cholesteatoma and malignancy were considered but with histology, microbiological and CT assessment, bilateral osteonecrosis of the external auditory canal was diagnosed...
June 15, 2021: BMJ Case Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33999258/dissatisfaction-with-school-toilets-is-associated-with-bladder-and-bowel-dysfunction
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cecilie S Jørgensen, Anders S Breinbjerg, Søren Rittig, Konstantinos Kamperis
Poor quality of school toilets is reportedly an issue in many countries and has been correlated with toilet refusal in children. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between perceived school toilet quality, behaviour regarding toilet visits, and symptoms of bladder and bowel dysfunction (BBD). Pupils in Danish schools were invited to complete online questionnaires regarding toilet behaviour, perception of school toilet standards/quality, and symptoms of BBD. Teachers at the same schools were asked about the quality of the toilets...
May 17, 2021: European Journal of Pediatrics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33840021/the-preliminary-evaluation-of-differential-characteristics-and-factor-evaluation-of-the-microbial-structure-of-rural-household-toilet-excrement-in-china
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yi Gao, Houyu Li, Bo Yang, Xiaocheng Wei, Chunxue Zhang, Yan Xu, Xiangqun Zheng
Recent studies on the microbial community composition of human excrement after rural household toilet treatment are unclear regarding the effects and risks of using recycled products as fertilizers in agriculture. In this study, we used Illumina high-throughput sequencing to investigate the microbial community structure of the excrement from 50 Chinese rural household toilets on a spatial scale, and we evaluated the impact of select geochemical factors on the bacterial and fungal communities in the human excrement...
April 10, 2021: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33573517/women-holding-it-in-urban-india-toilet-avoidance-as-an-under-recognized-health-outcome-of-sanitation-insecurity
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sarita Vijay Panchang, Pratima Joshi, Smita Kale
Emerging research on sanitation challenges in the Global South increasingly uncovers health and social impacts by gender, particularly lack of sanitation safety. Women may employ strategies to avoid urination or defecation ('holding it') in the absence of safe sanitation, but the practice is not well understood. We quantitatively analyze survey data on women from urban slums across three cities in Maharashtra, India whose households constructed a toilet through an intervention programme. We assess relationships between household versus shared sanitation, perceptions of safety, and women's toilet avoidance behaviours, including diet restriction...
February 11, 2021: Global Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33289645/an-alternative-approach-for-the-decontamination-of-hospital-settings
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Giuseppina Moccia, Oriana Motta, Concetta Pironti, Antonio Proto, Mario Capunzo, Francesco De Caro
BACKGROUND: The increasing emergence and spread of multiresistant microorganisms in hospital wards is a serious concern. Traditional protocols are often not sufficient to protect patients susceptible to serious and life-threatening infections, therefore new strategies for decontaminating hospital environments are crucial to reducing microbial transmission and the spread the nosocomial infections. The adoption of modern technologies is indicated to supplement traditional methods and to improve desired levels of surface disinfection...
December 2020: Journal of Infection and Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33246095/comparison-of-short-duration-and-chronic-premenarchal-vulvar-complaints
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Veronica I Alaniz, Emily K Kobernik, Jenny S George, Yolanda R Smith, Elisabeth H Quint
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare clinical characteristics, treatment histories, and microbiology of premenarchal girls who presented to a pediatric gynecology specialty clinic with short-duration and chronic vulvar symptoms. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Pediatric and adolescent gynecology clinic at a tertiary care children's hospital. PARTICIPANTS: One hundred eighty-two premenarchal patients ages 2-14 years who presented to a pediatric gynecology specialty clinic with vulvar complaints and who were evaluated with a yeast and/or bacterial culture...
November 24, 2020: Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33174267/school-based-approach-for-parasitic-diseases-control-in-japan-and-africa
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Yuho Horikoshi, Usman Muhammad Ibrahim, Shaun K Morris
Japan has achieved significant improvements in control and prevention of parasitic infections through school-based approach since 1930s. The use of chemical fertilizer in agriculture, safe water and food, and improved sanitation and hygiene also contributed to the near eradication of endemic parasites. However, parasite infections continued to affect children mostly in resource-limited countries, of which the African continent has one of the highest burdens of diseases. The application of school-based approaches has several advantages where the structure of healthcare systems is not optimal...
November 11, 2020: Pediatrics International: Official Journal of the Japan Pediatric Society
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33153115/soiling-of-pig-pens-a-review-of-eliminative-behaviour
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Eleonora Nannoni, André J A Aarnink, Herman M Vermeer, Inonge Reimert, Michaela Fels, Marc B M Bracke
This is a comprehensive review on the pigs' normal eliminatory behaviour (i.e., defaecation and urination) and pen soiling. This review is aimed primarily at solving issues with pen soiling in current systems, and ultimately at the future design of a well-functioning pig toilet, which we intend to elaborate on in a subsequent publication. In this paper, first, normal elimination is described in relation to what is known about its phylogeny, ontogeny, causation, and function, i.e., according to Tinbergen's four why questions concerning animal behaviour...
November 3, 2020: Animals: An Open Access Journal From MDPI
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