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Table 4 Mothers' awareness about danger signs of childhood illness

From: Care seeking behaviour for childhood illness- a questionnaire survey in western Nepal

Danger sign

Number of mothers aware (N = 292)

Child develops fever

149 (51.0%)

Child becomes sicker

132 (45.2%)

Child is drinking poorly

124 (42.5%)

Child is not able to drink or breastfeed

86 (29.5%)

Child has fast breathing

83 (28.4%)

Child has difficult breathing

65 (22.3%)

Child has blood in stool

30 (10.3%)