Therapy Focus:
Understanding Chronic and Acute Diarrhea
The Problem
From contaminated water to toxic chemotherapy drugs and autoimmune diseases, diarrhea has many causes. While diarrhea resulting from a food-borne illness may be a nuisance, chronic diarrhea and acute diarrhea associated with cancer therapy, HIV/AIDS treatment, infectious diseases and other severe conditions can be debilitating, reduce quality of life and be potentially life-threatening.
Diarrhea impedes the body’s ability to function as it prevents the retention of necessary nutrients, electrolytes and fluids. Furthermore, it can interfere with therapies for other conditions, as in the case of Cancer Therapy-Induced Diarrhea (CTID).
There are many products on the market that attempt to treat severe diarrhea, but there are none that prevent it. There is not one reliable, widely accepted treatment for severe diarrhea conditions. At Salient, we hope to change that as we explore the prevention and/or treatment of diarrhea associated with disease therapy, chronic conditions and infectious disease.
The Salient Solution
Unlike most current anti-diarrhea treatments in use today, Salient’s approach is to literally remove the diarrhea-causing toxin(s) or inflammatory agent(s) from the body. This results in the prevention or minimization of GI tract inflammation and resultant diarrhea. Salient is addressing this by using a composition of a unique, all-natural mineral, which attracts and selectively binds certain toxins and inflammatory proteins.
