[New possibilities of diagnosing intestinal helminthiasis by flotation of ova in a honey medium]

Aqueous honey solution of 1350 specific weight, was used as a medium for flotation of intestinal helminth eggs. By the method of Lörincz 446 stools of soldiers were examined by parallel flotation in honey and glycerine. By flotation in honey solution helminth eggs were found in 168 (37,6%) and by flotation in glycerin in 96 (21,5%) which made the difference of 72 (16,1%). The most commonly were found: Trichuris trichuria eggs in honey solution in 108 (24,2%) stools and in glycerin in 86 (15,2%); Ascaris lumbricoides eggs in honey solution in 39 (8,7%) stools and, in glycerin in 10 (2,2%); while eggs of other intestinal helminths were rarely found and if they were found their number was approximately same obtained by both methods. Aqueous honey solution has shown to be a very suitable medium for flotation of intestinal helminth eggs, especially in cases when stools contain a small number of eggs and that mainly immature eggs of Ascaris lumbricoides which can be hardly found by flotation in glycerin.