Glucose tolerance curve after a honey load versus matched amount of sugars

The effect of honey on glucose tolerance curve versus matched amounts of glucose and artificial formula was studied in diabetic patients. Results indicate that honey is more tolerable than pure glucose or an artificial formula of honey sugars. This is true in normal subjects and adult onset diabetes, honey could replace sugar as a sweetening agent. Unfortunately this beneficial effect of honey is not found in juvenile onset diabetics

effect of theophylline and bumetanide with spironolactone and ventilatory function in bilharzial patients with portal hypertension

Respiratory dysfunction in patients with hepatosplenic bilharziasis was recorded by many workers, some of them attributed this dysfunction to the increased size of the liver and spleen beside ascites; and others to the bilharzial pulmonary lesions whether vascular or parenchymal. The material of this work comprised 20 males with hepatosplenomegaly and pulmonary hypertension together with 10 normal control males, the pulmonary functions were done to all of them. Patients were treated with thiophylline and diuretics. It was noticed that some patients became significantly better after use of these drugs indicating that pulmonary dysfunction in these patients are mostly combined obstructive and restrictive