A comparative study of treatment effects of smecta and constipating pulvis onthe infantile enteritis

The main pathogenic-microorganism of infantile enteritis is human rotovirus.The treatment of in-fantile enteritis with smecta has been satisfactory,Our present study is to make a comparative study of thetreatrnent of infantile enteritis with smecta and constipating pulvis （selfmade traditional Chinese medicine）.The subjects were ninety infantile enteritis patients,2 to 32 months old.These cases accorded with the clinicdiagnostic standard of virus enteritis.We divided these cases into two groups in random,The treatmentgroup（40 cases）took constipating pulvis.The control group （50 cases）took smecta. The total responserates were as follows:the treatment group 87.5%,the control group 90.0%,There was no significant differ-ence between the two groups.The constipating time of each group was 1.58±1.05d（the treatment group）,2.4±0.70 d（the control group）respectively,The period when feces took shape were as follows the treat-ment group 2.56± 1.31 d,the control group 3.56±0.56 d.The periods when temperature returned to nor-mal were as follows:the treatment group 1.24±0.66d,the control group 2.28±0.41d.Based on thisstudy,we found that the treatment group was significantly superior to the control group.