Sir,?In the January issue of the Indian Medical Gazette, you have a note on hill diarrhoea as it occurs at Darjeeling and Poona and suggest a record of the experience of Civil Surgeons at other hill stations. From an experience of three years at Ootacamund, the "Queen of Hill Stations," the period including four "seasons," and from information gathered from my predecessors as Civil Surgeon, or ...

Albizia lebbeck is herb belonging to the family Fabaceae. It has several phyto-constituents that show many health benefits. Traditionally it used cure fever, diarrhoea, dysentery, asthma, cold, cough, conjunctivitis, arthritis, dental problems and skin disease. anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-pyretic immune-modulatory property. The plant contains alkaloids, flavones, flavonoi...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of the cytokine response at infection with Brachyspira hyodysenteriae can help understanding disease mechanism involved during swine dysentery. Since this knowledge is still limited the aim of the present study was to induce dysentery experimentally in pigs and to monitor the development of important immunoregulatory cytokines in blood collected at various stages of the dis...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of simultaneous zinc and vitamin A supplementation on diarrhoea and acute lower respiratory infections in children. STUDY DESIGN Randomised double blind placebo controlled trial. SETTING Urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS 800 children aged 12-35 months were randomly assigned to one of four intervention groups: 20 mg zinc once daily ...

Trichuris dysentery syndrome is caused by Trichuris trichiura which contributes to one of the most common helminthic infections in the world. It is associated with heavy colonic infection that manifests as mucoid diarrhoea, rectal bleeding, rectal prolapse, iron deficiency anaemia, and finger clubbing. Here, we report a case of trichuris dysentery syndrome complicated with severe chronic iron d...

Garcinia lanceifolia Roxb. is an important and endemic medicinal plant of Assam which has been used by various ethnic communities of Northeast India to treat various disorders like dysentery, dyspepsia, and biliousness. The plant is considered to be containing much medicinal value and is also eaten raw or made into pickles by the local people. Our present study has been focused on the evaluatio...

Although the beneficial effect of apple in the treatment of diarrhoea seems to have been known for many years, it is only in the last decade that it has found a place in medical literature. Schachter (1934) in one of his communications on this subject refers to a description of apple therapy in dysentery in an English book published in 1775. Apparently the treatment has been an ' old wives' tal...

Patients 1000 patients aged > 25 years (mean age 49 y, 90% men) with ≥ 1 major risk factor for CAD (hypercholesterolaemia, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, angina pectoris, or previous myocardial infarction [MI]). Exclusion criteria included cancer, chronic diarrhoea or dysentery, blood urea concentrations > 6.6 mmol/l, arthritis, dislike of the intervention diet, and refusal of laboratory test...

The ethnobotanicol survey was made during last two years in the tribal population of Madhya Pradesh. Valuable information about tho medicinal use of certain plants used against Diarrhoea and dysentery amongst tribal population were obtained by personal interviews. The medicinal properties or those plants are also given in this communications.

To characterize the epidemiology of dysentery (defined as bloody diarrhoea) in Burundi, we reviewed national surveillance data and conducted a household cluster survey including two case--control studies: one at the household, the other at the individual level. We estimated that community incidences for dysentery (per 1000 residents) in Kibuye Sector were 15.3 and 27.3, and that dysentery accou...