Use of multivitamin drink and oil solution of beta carotene in the treatment of children with chronic gastroduodenitis

Inclusion of vitamin-containing soft drink and oil solution of beta-carotene in the diet of the 4-14 years old children suffering from gastrointestinal diseases lead to vitamin and antioxidant status improvement with simultaneous positive effects on their clinical condition. Polyhypovitaminosis frequency had decreased. Thus, there is every reason to fortify diets of the patients suffering from gastrointestinal diseases with vitamins-antioxidants.     

Substantiation of the need of fortification with vitamins of the diet of children with gastrointestinal diseases

Surveys of 28 children have shown that 64 per cent of the children suffering from ulcerous disease of the stomach and the duodemun or chronic duodenitis have a combined deficiency of vitamin E, vitamins of the B group and beta-carotene. Diet No. 1 and No. 5 could not provide daily needs for vitamins. The patients were found to have a lower antioxidant activity of the blood serum, whereas the contents of hydroperoxides, double bonds and malonic dialdehydes were higher than in healthy children. The POL index in children with high beta-carotene deficiency was significantly higher than that in ailing children supplied with this carotenoid. Correlation analysis has revealed a reverse relationship between concentration of vitamin E and beta-carotene in blood serum and POL products, i.e. the better a child is supplied with these vitamins, the lower is the level of POL products. When the drink with the whole set of vitamins and an oil solution of beta-carotene was included in the diet of the children, it was found that hypovitaminosis frequency lowered with positive effects on their clinical condition and improved POL indexes. So there is a reason to fortify diets of children suffering from gastrointestinal disorders with vitamins-antioxidants.