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ABDOMINAL PAIN : Si x t y f our percent (228) of s ub j ec t s int e r -
vie we d said t hey had abdominal pain a t home after d i scharge;
79 .4% (181) of sUbjects had some treatment for this pain. A
ma jori t y of 86 .1% treated themselves at home . only 13 sUbjects
co ns u l t e d a t r a i ned medical professional, and .t 2 used pre­
scri p t i on dr ug s with which they were discharge d . Se e FIG 2 .4 .
At t he time o f interview, 61 ( 17. 0%) s ubjects still ha d
compl a i nts of l owe r a bdomi na l pain, even though 49 (80 .3% ) had
previously treated themselves or had s ome t rea tme nt .
In all, 8 3 (2 3 . 1%) indiv i duals ha d bo t h c ompl a i nts of
abd ominal pain and f ever at ho me. One hund r e d a nd f orty five
(4 0 .4%) SUbjects had abdominal pain with n o fever, 17 ( 4 .7% )
had fever but no abdominal pa in and 114 (31.8) had neither .
SELF TREATMENTS FOR FEVER AND/OR ABDOMINAL PAIN : Ho lot s Ub j e ct s
managed their symptoms o f f ever and abdominal pain as regards
where help was obtained, was a question incl uded in the stUdy
questionnaire i n the planning stages . However i t became
qu i ckly obvious at t h e s tart of the interviews, that t his
question needed to be expanded to include 0:1 l ist ing of the
drugs us ed in sal f-treatment , i f morbidity incidence was to be
correctly assessed. A question to this end was therefore
added . The reported sel f medica t ions us e d by SUbjects a re
presented i n TABLE 2 . 4 .