Infectious and parasitic diseases

Cholera

Cholera (cholera) - acute anthroponous infectious disease with fecal-oral mechanism of transmission of the causative agent, for which typical diarrhea with rapid development of dehydration. In connection with the possibility of mass distribution refers to quarantine, dangerous to human diseases.

Treatment of foodborne diseases

Treatment is started by washing the stomach with a warm 2% solution of sodium bicarbonate or water. The procedure is carried out prior to the departure of pure washings. Rinsing of the stomach is contraindicated with high blood pressure: people with IHD, peptic ulcer: in the presence of symptoms of shock, suspected myocardial infarction, poisoning with chemicals.

Diagnosis of food toxic infections

Diagnosis of food toxic infections is based on the clinical picture of the disease, the group nature of the disease, the connection with the use of a certain product in violation of the rules for its preparation, storage or sale.

Symptoms of food poisoning

The incubation period is from 2 hours to 1 day; at food toxic infections of staphylococcal etiology - up to 30 min. The acute period of the disease is from 12 hours to 5 days, after which the period of convalescence comes. In the clinical picture, general intoxication, dehydration and gastrointestinal syndrome are at the forefront.

What causes foodborne disease?

Combining foodborne infections into a separate nosological form is caused by the need to unify measures to combat their spread and the effectiveness of the syndromic approach to treatment.

Foodborne diseases

Food toxicosis (food bacterial poisoning, Latin toxicoinfectiones alimentariae) is a polyetiological group of acute intestinal infections that occur after eating food contaminated with conditionally pathogenic bacteria in which the accumulation of microbial mass of pathogens and their toxins occurred.

Treatment of Escherichiosis

In light cases, treatment of Escherichia is carried out outpatiently in the presence of favorable household, sanitary and hygienic conditions.

Diagnosis of Escherichiosis

The clinical picture of Escherichiosis is similar to the clinical picture of other diarrheal infections. Therefore, the diagnosis is confirmed on the basis of the bacteriological method of investigation. Material (stool, vomit, stomach washings, blood, urine, liquor, bile) should be taken in the early days of the disease before prescribing etiotropic therapy to patients.

Symptoms of Escherichiosis

Symptoms of escherichiosis depend on the type of pathogen, the age of the patient, and the immune status. With escherichiosis caused by enterotoxigenic strains, the incubation period is 16-72 hours, for which a cholera-like course of the disease occurs, with a lesion of the small intestine without a pronounced syndrome of intoxication ("travelers' diarrhea").

What causes escherichiosis?

Escherichia are mobile gram-negative rods, aerobes belonging to the species Escherichia coli, the genus Escherichia, the family Enterobacteriaceae. They grow on ordinary nutrient media, they release bactericidal substances-colicins. Morphologically the serotypes do not differ from each other.

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