Word: diarrheas
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...separate category, Dr. Danhof put patients who suffer from flatulent diarrhea because of a deficiency in enzymes that digest ordinary table sugar. The remedy is twofold: enzyme supplements and restriction of sugar in food and drink. Finally, some people have a so-called intestinal allergy to some specific foods, such as chocolate or strawberries, or even milk. In such cases, the remedy is the simplest of all-don't eat or drink them...
...Cholera, an intestinal infection spread in food and water contaminated by human waste, does not respond to drug treatment alone, kills mainly by dehydration. The key to recovery is in replacement of fluids and salts that the patient can lose at the rate of ten gallons a day through diarrhea...
...parents and his wife are "90-milers," that is, Cubans who have fled across the narrow channel to the U.S. Malabre stayed behind because "I already know the States: but what's happening here is a mystery to me." He drifts through the Havana streets under the "diarrhea of our tropical sun," and picks up amenable girls such as Elena, who has decided opinions. She says the "American smell" is the "smell of nylons, toothpaste, lipstick, deodorant, detergent and stuff like that. Americans have a peculiar smell and Russians stink...
...reach the camp. But that made no difference to the Bourne study. The men were under relentless cyclic stress, which reached a peak every evening with the prospect of a night attack. One day when intelligence said that an attack was expected, 30% of the G.I.s developed "the G.I.s"-diarrhea. But all, like the medics, showed normal or subnormal levels of stress hormones...
...Casket. Even these heroic efforts, over two years, failed to win the Montagnards' confidence. Then one evening Dr. Smith chugged into a village and saw, outside a long house built on stilts, a twelve-year-old girl in shock from diarrhea and vomiting. "Her father and brothers were so sure she was going to die," Dr. Smith recalls, "that they were hollowing out a log for her casket." Dr. Smith pulled out her infusion kit, hung a bottle from a bamboo overhead, and stayed up all night dripping fluids into the girl's veins...