[Living and working conditions and the nutrition of workers in the textile industry with pancreatic, biliary tract and intestinal diseases].

The purpose of this paper was to determine the relations between certain digestive tract diseases and essential environmental conditions. Forty parameters, according to a special questionnaire, were compared between the patients suffering from the diseases of pancreas, biliary duct and bowel and the controls. Adverse effects of improper nutrition, smoking and shift-work were found.

Disturbances of fat, carbohydrate, magnesium and protein balance in liver diseases.

40 patients with infectious hepatitis, 25 with chronic aggressive hepatitis, 25 with compensated liver cirrhosis, and 10 with decompensated liver cirrhosis were submitted to examination. The following abnormalities depending upon the stage and severity of hepatic diseases were found: a) disturbances of total lipids, cholesterol, phospholipids, beta-lipoproteids, glycerin, glycerides and neutral fats concentrations; b) marked disorders of glucose tolerance as indicated by the difference between plasma and erythrocyte glucose levels increasing in proportion to the degree of liver damage; c) a fall in plasma and erythrocyte magnesium reflecting the degree of hepatic parenchyma damage; d) a decrease of the albumin/gamma-globulin ratio in proportion to the degree of the impairment of hepatic cells. The presented fat, carbohydrate, magnesium and protein balance indices yield better criterions for the differential diagnostics of hepatic diseases than the routine investigations, and they also make possible objective prognosis.

[The use of residue-free resorbable nutrient preparations in colonic surgery].

1. Our tests have shown that the use of the oral nutrient Vivasorb which is completely resorbed in the small intestine, allows patients to be prepared for a large bowel surgical procedure without having them fast. This nutrient guarantees the supply of all the necessary components of nutrition, including high caloric value.