Zambia Demographic and Health Survey 2001-2002 - Measure DHS

Table 9.19 presents data on feeding practices when achild has diarrhoea. Most children are given either the sameamount of fluids (36 percent) or more fluids than usual(41 percent) when they have diarrhoea. Twelve percent ofchildren are given less fluids than usual, 6 percent are givenmuch less, and 5 percent receive no fluids.Regarding food, 39 percent of children are offered thesame amount of food and 9 percent are offered more food thanusual. Almost half of children with diarrhoea are offeredsomewhat less or much less food than usual, or no food at all.Knowledge and Use of ClorinClorin is a product used for water purification that iswidely marketed in Zambia. Table 9.20 shows that 75 percentof all households have heard of Clorin (95 percent in urbanareas and 65 percent in rural areas). However, only 14 percentof households (27 percent in urban and 7 percent in rural areas)reported treating their water with Clorin at the time of thesurvey.Lusaka (98 percent), Copperbelt (96 percent) andCentral provinces (93 percent) have the highest percentage ofhouseholds that have heard of Clorin. The same three provinceshave the largest proportion of households reporting use ofTable 9.19 Feeding practices duringdiarrhoeaPercent distribution of children under fiveyears who had diarrhoea in the two weekspreceding the survey by amount of liquidsand food offered compared with normalpractice, Zambia 2001–2002––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Feeding practicesPercent––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Amount of liquids offeredSame as usual 36.2More 40.9Somewhat less 12.4Much less 5.7None 4.7Don't know/missing 0.2Total 100.0Amount of food offeredSame as usual 39.3More 8.5Somewhat less 24.5Much less 14.0None 10.0Never gave food 3.5Don't know/missing 0.1Total 100.0Number of children 1,225Clorin to treat household water; 24 percent in Lusaka and Copperbelt, and 16 percent in Central province.The smallest proportion of households that report ever having heard of Clorin or are currently usingClorin to treat their household water is in Western province, 39 percent and 3 percent, respectively.Community-based agents (31 percent) and radio messages (31 percent) are the most commonsources of information about Clorin, followed by television (20 percent), and shops (18 percent).Leaflets/booklets and posters were the least mentioned source of information about the use of Clorin(2 percent each).152 | Maternal and Child Health