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Response times to treatment and recurrences of diarrhoea
| Number | Mean | 95% confidence interval for mean | ||
| Lower | Upper | |||
| Duration of first episode in days | ||||
| Both codeine phosphate and loperamide | 15 | 34.3 | -6.8 | 75.5 |
| Codeine phosphate | 29 | 20.1 | 11.5 | 28.8 |
| Loperamide | 5 | 26.1 | 13.1 | 39.1 |
| Episodes per year | ||||
| Both codeine phosphate and loperamide | 45 | 4.8 | 1.7 | 8.0 |
| Codeine phosphate | 63 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 4.3 |
| Loperamide | 16 | 6.5 | -0.7 | 13.7 |
