childhood constipation is ofton a long_term problem requiring treatment over months or years. there is no single treatment metod for constipation and many children do not respond and continue to have chronic problems. treatment is consisted of: disimpaction,drug adminstration , diet modilation, and behaverial therapy. it is necessary in all cases that not responding to conventional therapy, un ...

Hypertension is a common health problem. Hypotensive drugs and low salt diet are used in its treatment. This study was designed to compare the effectiveness of a low-salt diet and drug therapy in the treatment of arterial hypertension. A total of 256 randomly selected patients with essential hypertension consulting the Non-contagious Diseases Clinic in Shahreza, Isfahan, Iran, were included...

I read with interest the article by McLaughlin et al., ‘Exclusive elemental diet impacts on the gastrointestinal microbiota and improves symptoms in patients with chronic pouchitis’.1 In their case series, 7 patients with pouchitis following restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis (UC) were treated with exclusive elemental diet therapy for 4 weeks. The median stool frequency signific...

Approximately 30% to 40% of women with gestational diabetes (GDM) receive insulin therapy, and the multiple daily injection (MDI) regimen a combination basal prandial is generally used, as in cases prepregnancy diabetes. We developed simple (SII) regimen, which one or two injected doses are for mild GDM who require therapy. The present study explored whether not SII effective MDI preventing fet...

Enteral diets: primary therapeutic role In the early 1970s, disease modifying eVects of an elemental diet in Crohn’s disease (CD) were observed. The first controlled study in 1984 confirmed that an elemental diet was as eVective as steroids in inducing remission in acute CD. Several subsequent studies supported this primary therapeutic eVect for both elemental and polymeric enteral diets (see r...

A 49-year-old woman with intellectual disability and a food preference for fried chicken entered nursing home. After home diet, she developed episodic attacks of hyperammonemic encephalopathy. Her characteristic the negative results brain liver imaging studies suggested urea cycle disorder. high plasma citrulline level on amino acid analysis genetic test citrine gene confirmed deficiency (adult...

UNLABELLED Although apoptosis within atherosclerotic plaques is associated with plaque vulnerability and rupture, the role of inhibition of the apoptotic process is not clear. We evaluated the impact of dietary modification and statin therapy (measures known to favorably influence outcomes in coronary disease) on the incidence of apoptosis in experimental atherosclerotic lesions. METHODS A to...