Objective: We report an outbreak of epidemic dropsy following ingestion of cooking groundnut-oil adulterated with Argemone oil. Methods: We describe 40 patients (18 families) from three towns in Gujarat in 1998, affected with epidemic dropsy during an outbreak and its control measures. They were successfully treated with supportive measures and antioxidants. The outbreak control measures used w...

thlx00,1? and Van Slyke (1930) have shown belo , e? there is a fall of the plasma albumin tejn \ 2-5 per cent or of the total plasma proaut} e*?w 5.5 per cent oedema occurs. These that?rS S^e ^ie serum specific gravity tein corresPonds to these limits of plasma proM'^ntent is 1.0227 to 1.0233. Chopra, *llerjee, and Gupta (1935) studied the plasma protein of epidemic dropsy patients and recorded...