[Ranitidine therapy of duodenal ulcer: comparison of once-a-day and twice-a-day administration. A Swiss multicenter double-blind study].

In a Swiss multicenter double-blind trial ranitidine was given in doses of 300 mg nocte and 150 mg b.d. for the treatment of duodenal ulcer.

[The effect of lactitol on the production of expired hydrogen in normal subjects].

In man, unabsorbed disaccharide lactitol is fermented by colonic flora with an H2 breath production proportional to the absorbed quantity. The osmolality of the ingested solution is without effect either on the oro-cecal transit time and the time of H2 peak, or on the output and peak value of H2 expired. The intestinal symptoms seemed less prominent with slighter osmolality.

[Cimetidine and tripotassium-dicitrato bismuthate (Duosol) in chronic duodenal ulcer].

In an open study, 40 patients with duodenal ulcer of several years' standing were treated for relapse with either TDB (De-Nol) or cimetidine. No difference in the relapse rate was observed during the subsequent 12 months. Analysis of the data in relation to smoking habits did, however, reveal an advantage (p less than 0.

Trehalase deficiency. Prevalence and relation to single-cell protein food.

Perspectives in nutrition suggest a greater use of single-cell proteins in the future. The problems of a high purine content and of potential allergens have been solved by technology. The single-cell proteins may contain trehalose, the absorption of which by the human intestine necessitates prior hydrolysis by trehalase, a specific brush-border disaccharidase.