Word: diarrheas
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Spies, with associates at San Juan's School of Tropical Medicine, thinks that the efficacy of folic acid also proves decisively that sprue (symptoms: diarrhea, mouth sores, lassitude) is a result of poor diet rather than a contagious disease, as some doctors have insisted. Folic acid, Spies announced earlier this year in the A.M.A. Journal, is also a remedy for all but a few rare kinds of anemia, causing red blood cells to pour into the blood in striking numbers...
...milk is pasteurized, sold on prescription at 35? an oz. (free to poor parents) for babies who are 1) premature, 2) postoperative, 3) victims of malnutrition, diarrhea or allergy to cow's milk. None can be bought by rich mothers who simply can't be bothered to nurse their normal offspring themselves...
Purity & Prayer. When the Army tried to clamp down a tight censorship on the whole story, the press naturally played it up as a "Mystery Epidemic." Actually, the babies had been stricken by a disease known and feared by every mother. Called epidemic infant diarrhea, or summer diarrhea, it is not uncommon in hospitals and other institutions where newborn infants live in close contact...
...severe case of diarrhea is an acute medical emergency. It can be caused by insanitary bottles, dirty hands, or unsterilized milk; since milk is a good culture medium, bacteria multiply rapidly and the baby's intestines are not capable of combating them successfully. The baby loses large quantities of salts and water. This severe dehydration may result in death...
...took under our care 50 refugees. Father Rector treated the wounded as well as he could. He had to confine himself in general to cleansing the wounds of purulent material. Even those with the smaller burns were very weak, and all suffered from diarrhea. Our work was, in the eyes of the people, a greater boost for Christianity than all our work during the preceding long years...