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(Table 3). Spontaneous pain in the abdomen was more frequent (69,6 per cent) than abdominal pain provoked by examination only (38,3 per cent). Diarrhoea and obstipation were also common symptoms. From toxico-allergic symptoms headache was most frequently found (71,1 per cent), furthermore giddiness, urticaria, nervousness, unquiet dream, insomnia and itching of the nose and skin (Table 4). Spasms observed in two patients resembled to the „petit mal" syndrome. Loss of body weight was shawn in 39,3 per cent of infected persons in association with bad or unchanged appetite, while 18 patients showed weight gain due to increased appetite. For therapy five different kinds of treatments were used with the following results (Table 5): 1. Atebrin intraduodenally (71 patient, 71,4 per cent efficacy); 2. Atebrin perorally (21 patient, 42,7 per cent efficacy); 3. Atebrin and pumkin seed extract perorally (34 patients, 67,6 per cent efficacy); 4. pumkin seed extract perorally (ll patients, 45,4 per cent efficacy); 5. Yomesan (Bayer) perorally (56 patients, 73,0 per cent efficacy). Authors recommend Yomesan for the therapy of human tapeworm infection. Irodalom 1. ADONAJLO, A. - GANCARZ, Z.: Analiza epidemiologiczna tasiemczyc w Polsce

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