Severe salmonellosis related to oral administration of anti-diarrhoeal drugs.

Abstract

Infection with non-typhoidal Salmonellae usually causes a self-limiting dysenteric illness. Several factors are known to increase the propensity to invasive disease--with its related sequelae. We present four previously healthy patients who had none of the recognised risk factors but developed Salmonella infection with a severe and protracted illness. Common to each of these patients was the pre-hospital oral administration of anti-diarrhoeal drugs.

• Authors: D F Smith, C C Smith, J G Douglas, T M Reid, I M Gould
• Journal: Scottish medical journal (Scott Med J) Vol. 35 Issue 6 Pg. 176-7 (Dec 1990) ISSN: 0036-9330 [Print] Scotland
• PMID: 2077650 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Antidiarrheals

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Antidiarrheals (adverse effects)
• Diarrhea (drug therapy, etiology)
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Salmonella Infections (complications)
• Salmonella enteritidis (isolation & purification)
• Sepsis (complications)