


Benefits The benefits of writing this paper include: 1. Knowing the clinical manifestations of diarrhea.

Purpose and Objectives Based on the background and formulation above the writing of this paper aims to: 1. In developing countries including Indonesia children suffer from diarrhea more than 12 times per year and this is the cause of death by 15-34% of all causes of death (MOH, 2010). Diarrheal disease is a very dangerous disease and occurs almost in all geographical regions of the world and can affect all age groups of both males and females, but diarrheal diseases with severe dehydration rates with the highest mortality rates occur in infants and toddlers.

From year to year diarrhea remains one of the diseases that cause mortality and malnutrition in children. Diarrhea is still a major problem in society that is difficult to overcome. As for infants aged 1-4 years as much as 25.2 percent. Based on 2007 Basic Health Research data from the Ministry of Health, infant mortality rates aged 29 days to 11 months due to diarrhea reached 31.4 percent. According to WHO records, diarrhea kills 2 million children worldwide each year, whereas in Indonesia, according to Surkesnas (2001) diarrhea is one of the 2nd leading causes of death in infants. Diarrhea is often regarded as a trivial disease, whereas in global and national levels the facts show otherwise. According to UNICEF records, every second of a toddler dies from diarrhea. Background Diarrhea is still the leading cause of under five year old baby death (under 5 years old) in the world. We hope this paper will be useful for all readers and colleagues of STIKes Muhammadiyah Kudus studentsĪ. Therefore, we are looking forward to constructive criticism and suggestion from all readers for the perfection of this paper. We realize that this paper is far from perfect. For the help and support given so that this paper can be completed. Praise and gratitude we pray to the presence of God Almighty for His blessings and grace we can finish the English paper with title DIARE Writing this paper is intended to meet one of the assignment of English courses of education program S1 Nursing STIKes Muhammadiyah Kudus.
