[Free amino acid content in the blood and urine from the use of monomycin on children with dysentery].

The progress of acute dysentery in 73 children at the age of 1 to 14 years treated with monomycin and the levels of free amino acids in the blood and urine in dynamics were studied. It was found that the blood levels of 6 amino acids in the children treated with the antibiotics significantly decreased, while those of 3 amino acids increased as compared to the levels of the same amino acids in the children treated without the antibiotics. It was concluded that the diet of dysentery children treated with monomycin should contain stimulators of protein synthesis and increased amounts of protein.