[Apple powder in the treatment of patients with chronic enteritis].

A manifest clinical response has been achieved in 38 patients with chronic enteritis kept on apple diet in the form of apple powder produced from apple juice refuse. Carbohydrate loading with starch (polysaccharide), saccharose (disaccharide), glucose (monosaccharide), d-xylose made it clear that the apple powder improves hydrolysis and carbohydrate absorption: by 30%, 23%, 32% and 40% for starch, saccharose, glucose and d-xylose, respectively. Attenuation of the inflammation in the small intestine was also evident from the tendency to normalization of some fecal intestinal enzymes activity (entero-kinase, alkaline phosphatase). Changes in the systems PGE-cAMP and PGF-cGMP are suggested to play a role in the emergence of malabsorption syndrome, diarrhea, structural lesions in small intestinal mucosa.