Loperamide therapy for voluminous diarrhea in Ebola virus disease

J Infect Dis. 2015 Apr 1;211(7):1036-7. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiv001. Epub 2015 Jan 8.

Authors

Daniel S Chertow¹, Timothy M Uyeki², Herbert L DuPont³

Affiliations

¹ Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
² Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
³ Center for Infectious Disease, University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston.

No abstract available

Keywords: Ebola; diarrhea; gastrointestinal losses; hypovolemia; loperamide.

MeSH terms

Antidiarrheals / therapeutic use*
Diarrhea / drug therapy*
Diarrhea / virology
Ebolavirus / physiology*
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / complications
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / drug therapy*
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / virology
Humans
Loperamide / therapeutic use*

Substances

Antidiarrheals
Loperamide