Inconvenient topic: laxative abuse. review and clinical case
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Clinical Topic Review
The following article was initially presented at the Speciality Examination for Fellowship of the Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine. The examiners at that diet awarded it a high score. It is reproduced here as an example of what the Education and Examination Board of the Faculty believe a clinical topic review should be. The purpose of the clinical topic review in the Fellowship Examin...
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Abuse of laxatives, most of them belonging to the group of colonic stimulants or cathartics, can cause various disorders. Extensive diagnostic work can be avoided by early toxicological screening of the suspected patients with respect to laxatives. Because no screening method of this kind was available, we developed a procedure with which all phenolic and anthraquinone laxatives--except sodium ...
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We report a case of chronic administration of Epsom salts leading to diarrhoea and severe weight loss in 7 month old girl.
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Marked pancreatic islet cell hyperplasia was found in a patient with laxative-induced diarrhoea. It is suggested that laxative abuse might be an important aetiological factor in patients with pancreatic islet cell hyperplasia and the watery diarrhoea syndrome but in whom no hormonal excess can be demonstrated.
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OBJECTIVE Laxative abuse is common in patients with anorexia and bulimia nervosa and has been associated with longer duration of illness, suicide attempts, impulsivity, and greater eating and general psychopathology. We explored the extent to which laxative abuse was associated with specific psychopathological features across eating disorder subtypes. METHODS Participants were 1021 individual...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Reports of Vinnytsia National Medical University
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2522-9354,1817-7883
DOI: 10.31393/reports-vnmedical-2020-24(4)-28