HELMINTHIC GUT OBSTRUCTION

Helminthic Fever

Helminthic Therapy: A Review

Autoimmune and inflammatory diseases represent a significant health burden, especially in affluent societies and that no cure exists for majority of these diseases. Medication can slow the disease's progression, but many of the drugs on the market have unpleasant side effects. Current research on parasitic worms (helminthes) has demonstrated a great potential for whole worms, their eggs or thei...

Gut , 1960 , 1 , 62 . INTESTINAL PSEUDO - OBSTRUCTION WITH STEATORRHOEA

In the past few years we have encountered three cases of intractable wasting and diarrhoea in which attacks of intestinal pseudo-obstruction have occurred. Two of them will not be discussed in detail because in one, a woman of 52 years, the jejunum showed the histological appearances of adult coeliac disease as described by Paulley (1954) and Shiner (1956). At laparotomy the peristaltic activit...

Helminthic Infestation in Hazara Division

Of 6874 faecal Samples from 3 hospitals in Hazara Division 12.9% were found to have helminthic infestation. This incidence was lower than othereDivisions (40.6%) of N.W.F.P. Anky lostoma infestation is also less frequent in Abbottabad (1.2%) than in Haripur (7%) and Mansehra (6%). (JPMA 36:11,1986).

Dermatitis Linked with Helminthic Infections