PEDIATRICS Vol. 13 No. 5 May 1954, pp. 419-425
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INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION DUE TO ASCARIASIS

Report of Thirty-One Cases

MARGARET Q. JENKINS M.D.1 and M. W. BEACH M.D.1

1 The Medical College of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C.

Thirty-one patients with obstruction of the small intestine due to ascaris are discussed, with two deaths. These patients were seen during a five year period.

Treatment consisted of Wangensteen suction, parenteral fluids and small doses of hexylresorcinol crystoids without a laxative, given for several days, or of hetrazan®, 6 mg./kg, three times daily for one week.

Obstruction was relieved and no evidence of toxicity occurred.

Submitted on August 19, 1953