Tropical sprue

external

• Causes

  • Travel to West Indies

• Effects

  • Subtotal villous atrophy
  • Diarrhoea
  • Vitamin B12 malabsorption
  • Folic acid malabsorption
  • Megaloblastic anaemia
  • Malabsorption state

• Parents

  • Sprue

• Treatments

  • Tetracycline

• Description

  • "Caribbean
  • southern India
  • and Southeast Asia
  • affects both natives and visitors. Pathology: Malabsorption of folate and vitamin B12 deficiency - Megaloblastic anemia. ?? chronic infection small bowel infection by coliforms. Treatment: -Tetracycline - B12 - Folic acid"