Abstract
In the out patient clinic, the patients whose chief complaints of abdominal pain, melena, diarrhoea and abdominal distension were evaluated to find 4 cases of ulcerative colitis, excluding bacterial dysentery and amoeboid dysentery.
Age distribution were varied from 4 to 12 years old, among which two were male.
The clinical course were insidious in some cases and others showed various intractable symptoms.
The treatment of choice has not been established yet, including steroid therapy.
Allergic theory has been believed to be one of the pathogenesis, so that allergic disposition has been investigated for our cases.
