Before 2005, the Internal Revenue Code defined âchildâ or âqualifying childâ in several different ways depending on the benefit claimed. Each tax benefit had its own set of tests to determine whether or not a child was a âqualifying childâ for that particular tax benefit.
At one of these specialist centres the starting dose of loperamide depends on the volume of the baseline stoma output, e.g. 8mg-10mg four times daily for a very high output, and is then titrated according to response usually up to a maximum dose of 16mg four times daily.
Answer. Published information regarding the use of high dose loperamide for this indication is scarce, with no recent (or randomised controlled) trials in this area. Therefore treatment of patients remains largely empiric (2) i.e. based on observation and experiment rather than evidence.