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Irrespective of the type of diarrhoea, probiotics, enterosorbents and medications of immunomodulatory action should be considered alternative to antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents for starting etiotropic therapy of mild, moderate, even severe forms of Acute intestinal infections in children (under condition of starting treatment on day 1-2 of the disease).

“Treatment with antibiotics must necessarily be accompanied by the prescription of enterosorbents and / or medications of immunomodulatory action.”*

*Reference: Rational etiotropic therapy of acute intestinal infections of bacterial and viral etiology in children at the present stage A. Novokshonov, N. Sokolova, Russian State Medical University, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Moscow