Peptone treatment "Witte" of summer children's diarrhea

The pathogenesis and etiology of childhood summer diarrhea are still insufficiently understood. It is only known that the epidemic of these diarrhea is observed on summer days, when the child's intestines, due to his apparently weak endurance to the summer heat (decreased immunity) and due to careless and insufficient care and nutrition, is the object of food intoxication and flooding of various kinds of infections. The treatment of summer diarrhea is one of the most difficult tasks for the doctor. Already the high infant mortality rate from gastrointestinal diseases speaks for our poorly successful treatment. Message from Dr. Daikhovsky from the clinic of prof. Luria (Kaz. Medical journal, No. 2, 1928) on the treatment of diarrhea with peptone "Witte" prompted us to try this method on the material of the Ulyanovsk city children's outpatient clinic. The epidemic of children's diarrhea in the past summer gave us the opportunity to carry out peptone therapy.