Death due to Diarrhoeal diseases is a major health concern worldwide. Diarrhoea and various gastrointestinal illnesses realted to it causes death of a large number of people specially the young childdren. In most of the cases Diarrhoea is caused due to contamination of water or food. Usually the people living in poor food hygiene and safety or those who are exposed to poor and limited access to water, suffer from this disease. Millions of young children, mostly under the age of five in all parts of the world die because of Diarrhoeal diseases.

In the developing countries the rate of death from Diarrhoea is approximately 15% among the childrren. The children suffering from Diarrhoeal diseases suffer from dehydration primarily. In the poor countries Diarrhoea ranks the  second as the fatal disease cuasing death of minors under five, the first being pneumonia. It's really shocking that every single day approximately 4,500 deaths are caused due to Diarrhoeal diseases.