Ascaris infection.

Ascaris Infection Simulating Bright's Disease

A Case of Ascaris Infection Simulating Cholera

Sll?gested the clinical picture of cholera. . There had been no cases of cholera howevei 1,1 the village in which he lived. Without Raiting to make a diagnosis, 1 gave him two pints of hypertonic saline solution with glucose and adrenalin intravenously. I also ordered 10 minims of liquor adrenalin hydrochloride to be dropped under the tongue even l0ur for six doses. When I saw the patient six h...

Ascaris Lumbricoides Infection in Malabar District

a preponderance over Malabar in this respect. The unhygienic method of disposal of the nightsoil and the excreta, the shallowness of most of its wells, the dirty habit of many of its folk, its peculiar climate and the vegetarian life of most of its people are among the most potent contributions towards the exuberant propagation of these human foes. Picture to yourself a compound with damp soil,...

The treatment of ascaris infection with velardon.

Ascaris infection is still very common, mainly in children and especially in unhygienic conditions. In the human intestinal tract only that species of ascaris parasitic in man can develop. Every ascaris infection is caused by larvae from eggs which have been deposited in the soil with human faeces, and the ascaris egg must have developed for some time in the soil before it is capable of infecti...

Churg-Strauss vasculitis and ascaris infection.

A patient with Churg-Strauss vasculitis presenting with mononeuritis multiplex, who developed obstructive jaundice, is described. On investigation the jaundice proved to be due to ascaris infestation. As the immune abnormalities associated with ascaris infection are also typical of those seen in the Churg-Strauss syndrome it is speculated that the vasculitis occurred because of a failure to reg...