Sarcouncil Journal of Internal Medicine and Public Health

Abstract: This paper aims to assessment The effect of rotavirus on severe acute diarrhea in Iraqi children aged 4-8 years and knowing the risk factors that affect the mortality rate in this study. In this study, 77 pediatric patients were collected to know the effect of rotavirus on severe acute diarrhea in Iraqi children aged 4-8 years from different hospitals in Iraq in the period between 2019-January to February 2020 and the suspected cases in this study were children who had suffered from diarrhea for five days due to the influence of rotavirus. The results which found in this study were collect from 77 children diagnosed with rotavirus distributed according to sex for 43 boys and 34 girls; in this research, the effect of rotavirus on the Degree of dehydration in children was revealed, as 55 pediatric patients for moderate dehydration with 71%, severe dehydration in 22 patients with 29%. In this research, an assessment of outcomes according to mortality was conducted, and 11 children were found with 14.2% Dying, and living for 66 patients with 85.7% also analyzed person correlation between mortality with variables of origin, sex, and age and were found There is a direct statistically significant relationship with Rural, Girls, and ages ranging from 4 to 6 years with a p-value < 0.05