SULFAPYRIDINE AND PNEUMONIA

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Since the advent of sulfapyridine we have treated three patients with pneumonia with this drug together with other measures and hope that what we have to offer will be of some benefit to others in the treatment of that most dreaded disease. One patient, a child of 2 years, responded satisfactorily to sulfapyridine without other drastic therapy. The two other patients, both women, became extremely nauseated and vomited after the first dose. The temperature of each was falling but something had to be done to relieve the gastric distress. As continuous operation of the oxygen tent is expensive for the patient, we put them under the tent a half hour before sulfapyridine was administered and kept them there for a half hour after medication, and there was no more nausea or vomiting. The oxygen therapy was continued until the temperature became normal, at which time the dose of sulfapyridine was

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