A manual of modern gastric methods : chemical, physical, and therapeutical / by A. Lockhart Gillespie ... ; with a chapter upon the mechanical methods used in young children / by John Thomson.

  • Gillespie, A. Lockhart (Alexander Lockhart)
Date:
1901
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    especially in weakly children, not to over-distend the stomach by running in too much water at a time, or by holding the funnel too high. When a sufficient amount of water has been introduced, the funnel is lowered, and the contents of the stomach rapidly fill it by syphon action, and are allowed to run away. The tube is then pinched to prevent the entrance of air, the funnel raised again and refilled with water, and the process repeated. The washing-out should be continued until fragments of curd, etc., cease to be found in the returning fluid. Indications for Stomach Washing. 1. In so-called 'sinmner diarrhcea' or 'iniik infec- tion'^ stomach washing, combined with irrigation of the lower bowel, constitutes the most rational and successful preliminary treatment. When first intro- duced it was supposed that it should only be em- ployed in those children who were not very weak. It is now recognised that the weaker the infant the more important is it to wash out his stomach without delay, because the very active poisons to which the most alarming symptoms are due can be partially removed in this way. The process itself is practically without danger if carefully carried out. 2. In all forms of chronic vomiting of gastric origin in children, irrigation of the stomach may be useful ; but owing to the practical difficulties met with in its application to older children, its use is mainly confined to babies. In a great many cases one washing-out is sufficient to initiate improvement in the symptoms ; in others, the process may have to be repeated daily for several days. Not infrequently in an infant who