On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:34:07 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

Your quotes omitted one of the most effective adjuncts to the drug
therapy - sugar.

Larger than normal intake of sugars can tip the balance between survival
or thud!: if they can be kept down. Treatment should include
intravenous injection of 20 ml glucose in normal saline solution, four
or five times a day.

Mushrooms and Toadstools - Dr. John Ramsbottom, Collins NewNaturalist
Series, Ch 5, Poisonous and Edible Fungi: 1



Omitted for one reason there is no evidence to support claims for its
efficacy.

Any one on ITU would almost certainly receive glucose as a routine
infusion

By the way you don't need ( indeed there are reasons not to) mix
glucose with saline.

Normal Saline solution is 0.9%. ie 9 grammes of sodium choride in 1
litre of water. This is a standard drip mix. Glucose is also used
routinely in drips at 5% concentration. You can give 2 litres of
glucose 5% per day with 1 litre of saline 0.9% as a routine in many
situations. To mean anything the 20ml of glucose would need to be at a
defined concentration, Hospitals routinely use 5% 10% 20% and 50%
strenghts of glucose.

500mL of 50% per day gives 250g of carohydrate which is not too far
from what many take each day.

Neil