ABSTRACT
Background: Diarrhoea is described as three or more loose orwatery stools a day. Infection commonly causes acuteDiarrhoea. Noninfectious etiologies are more common as theduration of Diarrhoea becomes chronic. Hence; under the lightof above mentioned data, we planned the present study assessand compare the efficacy of various treatment modalities in theTreating diarrhoea patients.Materials & Methods: A total of 160 patients with diarrhoeawere included in the present study. All the patients werebroadly divided into four study groups with 40 patients in eachgroup: group 1- patients who were given Nitazoxanide therapywhile group 2- included patients who were given metronidazoletherapy, group 3- patients who were given cefixime therapy,and group 4 – patients who were given norfloxacin therapy.Stool samples were obtained from patients of both the studygroups for assessing the effectiveness of treatment therapy.Both clinical and microbiological success was recorded. All theresults were recorded and analysed by SPSS software.Results: Clinical success was recorded in 95 percent of thepatients of group 1 and it was recorded in 97.5 percent ofthe patients of group 2. Microbiological and clinical successamong subjects of group 3 was 90 percent and 92.5 percentrespectively. Microbiological and clinical success amongsubjects of group 4 was 92.5 percent and 92.5 percentrespectively. Non-significant results were obtained whilecomparing the efficacy of both the antibiotics in treatingdiarrhoea patients.Conclusion: All the antibiotics can be used with equal efficacyin treating diarrhoea patients.