[The pathogenetic therapy of patients with food poisonings and a complicated course]

The complicated and combined course of alimentary toxicoinfections are practically the main causes of all the lethal outcomes in these diseases. In this work the data on the recent progress in the rehydration therapy of acute enteric infections are presented. The authors established that combined forms constituted 15.3% and complicated ones constituted 2% of alimentary toxicoinfections. The results of the treatment of alimentary toxicoinfections combined with ischemic heart disease, hypertension and chronic alcoholism, as well as complicated by shock and pneumonia, are presented. The general principles of treatment in combined and complicated cases are the maintenance of the usual (under given conditions) volume of liquid for rehydration with the limitation of the rate of its introduction.