[Lavage of the digestive tract with an isotonic mineral water-based 3-salt solution]

The article presents technology, chief indications and contraindications, therapeutic effectiveness of peroral lavation of the alimentary canal with the drinking mineral water-base isotonic polyionic solution, its composition being as follows (g/dm3): sodium chloride, 6.5, potassium chloride, 0.75, sodium hydrocarbonate, 2.5. The patient takes on an empty stomach 5 to 7 l of the solution, t 40-37 degrees C, mean rate 50 ml/min. The procedure is done again in 7 to 10 days, the course of treatment involving 3 to 5 procedures, subsequently one procedure/30 to 60 days. After lavation the patient takes an enterosorbent and keeps to fruit and vegetable diet or has salt-, sugar-, and fat-free porridge. Kept under observation were 1384 patients 5 to 68 years old who had 3552 procedures done in them. The benefit from a complex sanatorium treatment involving the above procedure occurred in 26% of patients and 8% of controls.