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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1987
Filed:
May. 06, 1985
Technology Unlimited, Inc., Wooster, OH (US);
Abstract
This disclosure teaches a method of inactivating bacterial toxins, such as produced by Vibrio cholerae and Escherichia coli (hereinafter V. cholerae and E. coli) that are responsible for diarrhea in warm-blooded animals, comprising the placing of an effective dosage of ascorbic acid salts thereof, or derivatives such as the ester ascorbyl palmitate in the intestinal tract. Definition: Ascorbic acid, salts thereof, and derivatives thereof such as ascorbyl palmetate have been identified as suitable detoxifying material according to this invention. For the sake brevity, the term 'ascorbic acid' hereinafter shall include the salts and esters. Diarrhea as used herein will include other toxins effecting the lower duodenum and intestines.