Diarrhoea in the dog and cat I. Acute diarrhoea

Acute diarrhoea in adults

Firstly, the planners, the economists, the actuaries, and the lawyers have to sit down with tne doctors and devise a new format, shorn of expensive bureaucracy, which is more efficient, competitive, and, in the long run, cheaper. This then has to be sold up-hill to those who will fear losing their mess of pottage in any transition, and this would obviously mean many of the senior doctors approa...

Acute Infective Diarrhoea

seen with severe dehydration and the World Health Organisation believe 90% of all deaths from diarrhoea in children may be prevented. Chronic diarrhoea has emerged, however, as an important problem as a result of this improvement in mortality and in particular, persistent diarrhoea that is, diarrhoea that begins acutely but persists, continuing beyond two weeks after the onset of the acute diar...

Diarrhoea of Acute Kwashiorkor

Children with kwashiorkor almost invariably have diarrhoea which may be severe and prolonged. The exact cause is often obscure and the management unsatisfactory (Brock et al., 1955; Trowell, 1958; Pretorius and Smit, 1958). Recently Bowie, Brinkman, and Hansen (1965), and Bowie, Barbezat, and Hansen (1967) found that the majority of their kwashiorkor patients with severe diarrhoea responded wit...

Gut hormones in acute diarrhoea.

The gut hormone response to a breakfast meal was studied in 12 subjects hospitalised for an episode of acute diarrhoea (presumed infective) who were otherwise well and in 13 healthy control subjects. Fasting blood glucose concentrations were low but basal insulin concentrations were raised. Basal concentrations of pancreatic polypeptide and both basal and postprandial responses of motilin, ente...

The occurrence of bovine virus diarrhoea/muscosal disease in Iran