Quite known symptoms are diarrhea and fever.stomach, - usually signal the presence of inflammatory process in the body. And the named combination can occur in both children and adults as a result of food poisoning, intestinal infection, or the presence of serious pathologies of the gastrointestinal tract. How to get rid of these symptoms in some diseases, we will discuss later in the article.
Most often, loose stools and abdominal pain are manifestations of intestinal infection. And there are a great many microorganisms capable of exciting it:
As a result of the activities of any of these uninvitedguests work the intestinal tract is disturbed, and the infected appear diarrhea and cramps in the stomach. As you understand, in these cases it is necessary to treat not the symptoms, but the reason that caused them. To do this, the patient needs to be examined and clarify the cause of the trouble.
Quite often abdominal pain and loose stoolsare symptoms of salmonellosis, which occurs in humans and animals. Salmonella is a very tenacious microorganism. It remains active for a long time and tolerates even unfavorable conditions: at 70 ° C, this bacterium dies only after 7-10 minutes! In a piece of meat with a thickness of 12 cm, salmonella does not die even after boiling, and 2.5 months are still active in smoked or salted food. In butter, it can feel good for 4 months, and in milk - until the time when it turns sour.
On the first day after infection in a patientabdominal cramps, diarrhea, fever, nausea and vomiting appear. And the greatest danger in this disease is toxic shock, which can cause swelling of the brain, kidney or heart failure.
Based on the danger posed by salmonellosis, abdominal cramps and diarrhea caused by this disease are treated only in an infectious diseases hospital.
The symptoms described are no less frequent andwith another intestinal infection transmitted from person to person - dysentery. It can be infected at any time of the year, but in summer, as a rule, there is a peak in incidence.
Dysentery stick, hitting the stomach, in largethe amount dies, releasing endotoxin. It is absorbed in the intestines and is carried by the blood to the body, poisoning it. And the surviving part of the bacteria is located in the colon, where it causes the development of the inflammatory process until the appearance of ulcers.
When dysentery patients complaincolic pains and cramps in the stomach and diarrhea, which are accompanied by weakness, chills and fever. Very frequent bowel movements (up to 20 times a day) after a while become scanty, and mucus and blood appear in them, tenesmus occurs (painful false desires for emptying).
Понос и рези в животе, вызванные дизентерией, can be treated in the infectious diseases hospital, and at home, depending on the severity of the disease. The patient is prescribed adsorbents ("Polyphepan", "Smekta"), drugs that improve the intestinal microflora ("Linex", "Bifidobakterin", "Lactobacterin", etc.), as well as antibiotics.
When treating a patient, a sparing diet and strict quarantine are necessary.
But diarrhea, vomiting, cramps in the stomach can also be symptoms of a viral infection (most often it is rotavirus or enterovirus). In such cases, talking about intestinal flu.
Usually the disease manifests itself sharply and suddenly, andthese symptoms are associated with muscle pain, weakness, increased heart rate, runny nose, sore throat, tearing, photophobia, pain in the heart area, which, as you understand, can make it difficult to diagnose the disease.
Infection with viruses, like bacteria, occursin violation of the rules of hygiene (dirty hands, poorly washed fruits and vegetables, etc.). A patient with this type of infection is very contagious, since rotaviruses, for example, are able to withstand a rather low temperature and can stay in adverse conditions for a long time.
There is no specific treatment for intestinal flu. And if the patient has abdominal cramps and diarrhea, treatment is reduced to taking symptomatic drugs:
In the diet of the patient include jelly, chickenbroth, rice porridge, which offer to eat in small portions. And in the presence of frequent liquid stool and vomiting, a lack of fluid and salt is restored by frequent drinking and taking Regidron.
You should know that rotaviruses are susceptible to an increase in body temperature, and at 38 ° C they begin to die, so it is not recommended to shoot it down with intestinal flu below the mentioned mark.
