Abstract
A 2-year-old girl was diagnosed as having acute gastroenteritis with severe diarrhoea, for which she was prescribed a loperamide solution. Following this she developed paralytic ileus. She was then treated conservatively and was administered fluid and electrolytes parenterally. She started to recover after 48 hours. In young children with acute diarrhoea there usually is no place for medicinal treatment, and certainly not with antimotility drugs such as loperamide.
| Translated title of the contribution | Ileus after the use of loperamide in a child with acute diarrhea |
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| Original language | Dutch |
| Pages (from-to) | 670-2 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde |
| Volume | 147 |
| Issue number | 14 |
| Publication status | Published - 5 Apr 2003 |
Keywords
- Antidiarrheals
- Child, Preschool
- Diarrhea
- Electrolytes
- Female
- Fluid Therapy
- Gastroenteritis
- Humans
- Intestinal Obstruction
- Loperamide