According to a new study, ginger is an effective product in the fight against acute gastroenteritis in children. This spice helps reduce vomiting.
This should provide relief to many parents in distress. A study has just shown that ginger is very effective in treating vomiting in children with acute gastroenteritis.
-20% vomiting
The essay, presented during the 51st annual meeting of ESPGHAN, involved 141 children with acute gastroenteritis. All were between 1 and 10 years old. After experience, the number of vomiting episodes in children treated with ginger was reduced by 20% compared to the number of vomiting episodes in children not treated with ginger. Children treated with ginger were also able to return to school faster (-28% of time spent away from school).
Researchers have also been certain that ginger reduces the “duration” and “severity” of vomiting. Three quarters of children with acute gastroenteritis suffer from vomiting, sometimes so intense and frequent that it prevents oral rehydration.
Childhood gastroenteritis is one of the main reasons for consultations
The potential economic gain from such a discovery is considerable. Better treatment of acute gastroenteritis would allow parents of sick children to return to work faster and relieve pediatric emergencies. In Europe, childhood gastroenteritis is one of the main reasons for consultations. It represents more than 87,000 visits per year to the hospital and nearly 700,000 external medical examinations. If deaths, caused by dehydration, are rare, they are nevertheless possible, as was recently the case in Montévrain (Seine-et-Marne), where six-month-old girl tragically lost her life to illness.
Globally, acute gastroenteritis is one of the leading causes of child mortality, with 1.34 million child deaths per year, or about 15% of all child deaths. Based on these figures, the High Council of Public Health (HCSP) recommends having children vaccinated against rotaviruses, even if this is not mandatory.
Ginger has already been shown to be effective on vomiting in pregnant women and adult patients undergoing chemotherapy. According to Dr Roberto Berni Canani, “Research should now focus on finding out whether ginger might also be effective in treating vomiting in children unaffected by acute gastroenteritis.”
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