Subcutaneous Dihydrocodeine Tartrate: Compatibility in a Syringe Pump With Other Drugs Frequently Prescribed for the Management of Symptoms Associated With Brain Tumors.

Background: Dihydrocodeine can be more effective in the management of headache due to brain tumor than other opioids. It can be used as a subcutaneous infusion, but at present, there is little available data to support its use in combination with other medicines in a syringe pump.

Aim: This project aimed to establish physical stability data for the use of dihydrocodeine with other drugs when combined in a syringe pump.

The prevalence and intensity of Ascaris lumbricoides infections in Moslem children from northern Bangladesh.

The results are presented of a horizontal epidemiological survey of intestinal infections of children aged between six months and 15 years in three adjacent villages in northern Bangladesh. On the basis of 203 stool sample examinations, the prevalence of Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, hookworm and amoebic infections was estimated as 68, 56, 53 and 19%, respectively. Age-specific prevalence data indicated that approximately 90% of the children were harbouring patent Ascaris infections by the time they were four years old and there was some evidence to suggest differences in the pattern of age-prevalence between male and female children.