Monday, April 20, 2015

Enterogermina

Many of you will be wondering what this is. Well, this is a medicine which I found written in prescriptions of many a quack for diarrhoea, especially in children. And most of them did not have a prescription for ORS, the mainstay of any treatment for diarrhoea . . .

Last week, I thought of looking it up. It is of course a medication with no clear cut evidence of any benefit. It was more interesting toto read the first paragraph in the product insert.


It looks like a very complicated way of saying that this medicine may not be a medicine at all . . . It is as good as eating chocolates or drinking horlicks . . .

Another medicine to dupe a poor sick man into poverty . . . Another interesting aspect. This 'medicine' is easily available, but we have difficulty getting stuff like plain doxycycline, buscopan, dihydrochlorothiazide etc . . . 

1 comment:

  1. Many clinical studies have proven the efficacy of Enterogermina in helping to resolve childhood diarrhea:
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1949444/
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apt.12460
    http://www.microbiologyresearch.org/docserver/fulltext/jmmcr/1/3/jmmcr004036.pdf

    Please do your research in the medical literature before making inaccurate statements about the efficacy of a product.

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