Word: diarrheas
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...other of cornering vaccine for their partisans. The government welcomed a U.S. Navy team of veteran cholera fighters from Formosa, but failed to use vigorously the weapon that the Navymen recommended: salt water. Cholera victims are weakened and killed by a catastrophic loss of body fluids through vomiting and diarrhea (as many as 15 quarts in a day); they can nearly always be saved by prompt, aggressive treatment, in which saline solution is given intravenously, sometimes with sodium bicarbonate. The Manila government did not get enough of the solutions or the equipment to administer them...
...Indian peasants held virtually as slaves. Today, while Peru exports cotton, sugar, silver and copper, it must import food to maintain even a marginal existence for the bulk of its 10 million people. Half the population is illiterate; undernourished children die of such simple maladies as measles and diarrhea...
Nevertheless, our problems persisted. The work was hard, the food simple, the language a strain, and the diarrhea a bother. And other problems were more subtle. It was some time before the Americans realized that their quicker response to the dinner bell was grouping them at the table, and the English and French tables for language practice which resulted met with only temporary success...
...Please don't eat the wisteria, the U.S. Public Health Service warned, in effect. The pods of wisteria vines, particularly in the South, where the plants grow profusely, make children severely ill with vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal swelling...
...infectious variety takes two to six weeks to develop. Common symptoms: jaundice, headache, fever (up to 104°), nausea, loss of appetite, diarrhea, enlarged liver, mental depression. Unlike any other contagious disease, hepatitis is harder on women than men. Only about three in every 1,000 hepatitis victims die from the disease, but even mild attacks are thought to precipitate progressive liver disease and cirrhosis. Many patients recover after seven or eight weeks, but others are still sick at the end of a year or more, and relapses are fairly common. Some patients become unwitting carriers of the serum type...