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Hydrophilic colloids bring about conditions in the stomach during digestion which approach those resulting from the consumption of foods in their natural state.
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Hydrophilic colloids lessen gastric irritation by absorbing the digestive secretions of the stomach so that digestion takes place within a mass of food.
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Gelatin, because of its availability, relatively low cost, non-toxicity, adaptability as an item of dietary and its thorough digestibility becomes an admirable hydrophilic colloid for dietary usage.
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The amount of gelatin to be used in a given case depends on the patient’s needs, but it must be of good quality and sufficient in amount.
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It has a wide range of usefulness in gastrointestinal ailments ranging from the atonic conditions met in the chronic invalid to the irritating condition presented in gastric ulcer.
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Read at the Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Therapeutic Society, Atlantic City, June 4–5, 1937.
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Pottenger, F.M. Hydrophilic colloidal diet. American Journal of Digestive Diseases 5, 96–99 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03010602
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03010602