[Chatelguyon thermal springs and amoebiasis (author's transl)].

Châtelguyon thermal springs are an effective treatment of chronic post amoebic colitis and its side effects on gastroduodenal tract and autonomic nervous system. The high level of magnesium of these waters is the main therapeutic agent; after the cure, the intraerythrocytic magnesium level is above the standard while the Mg seric level is below. The waters might reactive the amoebiases, increasing in the same time the specific amoebic antibodies. Parasiticidal treatment must be prescribed before any cure, if patient is proved to be Entamoeba minuta or cyst carrier.