As the disease develops

The severity of the disease depends on the amount of the pathogen entered the body, its ability to cause disease, state security forces and the gastrointestinal tract of the sick person. In severe forms of the disease affects the entire gastrointestinal tract, the lungs - only the lower part of the colon. The walls of the intestinal inflammation that develops ulcers. Ulcers typically superficial and not cause significant bleeding or perforation of the bowel. Circulating blood toxins (poisons) bacteria cause damage to the central nervous system, circulatory system or metabolism Metabolism: The basis of life of all living things .

In some patients after recovery continues to be detected in stool Shigella, which is very dangerous to others. Cases of dysentery again, as the immune system Immunity - types and characteristics in children in adults   (resistance to disease) after dysentery is very short.

Dysentery can occur acutely, chronically and erased.

Signs of acute dysentery

The incubation period (time from infection to the first symptoms of the disease) in acute dysentery is 2-3 days with a range from a few hours to 7 days. The disease can occur only with lesions of the colon, with lesions of the stomach and small intestine and with lesions of the gastrointestinal tract.

With the defeat of colon disease begins suddenly, there is a fever, chills, weakness, headache. Simultaneously, patients concerned about cramping pain in the left half of the abdomen, diarrhea. Chair 10-25 times per day, fecal volume decreases rapidly in the stool an admixture of mucus and blood. Defecation is accompanied by painful urging (tenesmus). The height of the disease may last from 1-2 to 8-10 days.

If the disease affects the stomach and small intestine, the leading signs are nausea and vomiting. The defeat of the gastrointestinal tract has a more acute course and a predominance in the first 1-2 days of nausea and vomiting, and then the phenomena of intestinal lesions.

Chronic dysentery and blurred for

Chronic dysentery is very rare. After 2-5 months after acute dysentery, periodic flare-up. Gradually, there are signs of damage to other parts of the gastrointestinal tract - nausea, vomiting, pain in the epigastric region, bloating. Sometimes there is a long continuous course of the disease.

When erased signs of dysentery during mild or absent, so cases are often detected only in the course of the survey.

Diagnosing dysentery

To confirm the diagnosis of dysentery conduct laboratory testing of stool - sowing it on the culture media to identify the causative agent and its sensitivity to antibiotics Antibiotics - whether they will help you in the foreseeable future? . The patient's blood dysentery observed increase in the number of antibodies Antibodies - "soldiers' immunity   to pathogens (ELISA method), and the DNA of the pathogen (PCR).

In chronic forms of dysentery and worn out to confirm the diagnosis is performed a sigmoidoscopy (the study of the intestinal mucosa by means of optical apparatus) detect inflammatory changes in the colon.

Treatment of dysentery

In the acute stage of the disease patients should follow a diet: the food must be mechanically and chemically gentle, excluded milk products, irritating the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract (spices, alcohol, fatty, spicy).

To combat dehydration appointed by drinking plenty of fluids, intravenously administered various solutions. Antibacterial drugs are prescribed individually depending on severity and sensitivity to them pathogens. Some types of dysentery dysentery appoint a polyvalent bacteriophage. I am sure we treat dysbiosis.

After undergoing dysentery patients can be considered healthy 3 days after clinical recovery and normalization of stool, body temperature, and a single negative bacteriological tests conducted not earlier than 2 days after the end of treatment.

Prevention of dysentery

Prevention of dysentery - it's sanitary measures on the improvement of human settlements, provision of safe water and food. In addition, the people themselves must comply with hygienic preventive measures: wash hands frequently with soap and water, boil water, wash fruits and vegetables.

Action metrogil on the human body

Metrogil (INN - metronidazole) is a drug for the treatment of infections caused by protozoa, which also has an antibacterial effect. Analogs metrogil - Trichopolum Trichopolum - he treats? , Nidazol and others. Metrogil Available as tablets for oral use, solution for injection, in the form of a gel for topical application.

Metrogil affects mainly on mikrorganizmy that show the viability of the absence of air (anaerobic). By anaerobes are Trichomonas Trichomonas - leads to infertility Amoeba, giardia, more. Under the action Metrogil cells of these microorganisms is suppressed in the formation of nucleic acids DNA and this causes the breakdown of cells.

Metrogil often prescribed with any antibiotic having a different spectrum of activity. For example, in combination with amoxicillin metrogil prescribed for stomach ulcers and duodenal ulcers, to suppress the addiction to metrogilu pathogen Helicobacter pylori.

Bacteria that develop under air (aerobic) mostly to metrogilu insensitive, so a mixed infection metrogil often used in combination with antibiotics.

Metrogil peculiarity is the fact that it produces increased allergic disposition (sensitization) to alcohol, so often used to treat chronic alcoholism. Metrogil activates the regenerative processes in tissues, and therefore widely used after various surgical interventions.

Upon receipt metrogil blood he entered in to the tissues and then eliminated from the body in urine. Due to the fact that when the kidney function it can accumulate in the body, patients with these disorders daily dose is reduced.

Indications for admission metrogil

Indications for admission metrogil are:

• trichomoniasis;
• various inflammatory diseases of the external and internal genitalia, caused by susceptible microorganisms to metrogilu;
• Infectious diseases caused by protozoa: amebiasis, giardiasis, leishmaniasis;
• various infections of bones and joints caused by susceptible microorganisms to metrogilu;
• infections of the central nervous system (encephalitis, meningitis, purulent inflammations) caused by microorganisms susceptible to metrogilu;
• Bronchopulmonary infection system (bronchitis, pneumonia, lung abscess), caused by susceptible microorganisms to metrogilu;
• abdominal infections, kidney and urinary tract infections caused by susceptible microorganisms to metrogilu;
• gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcers caused by Helicobacter pylori (in combination with amoxicillin);
• state after various operations - for faster wound healing;
• alcoholism - to form aversion to alcohol.

Contraindications metrogil

Admission metrogil potivopokazan:

• if you are hypersensitive to it;
• when leukopenia (decrease in white blood cell count) - metrogil inhibits their formation;
• in severe neuropsychiatric diseases Mental illness - ashamed to ask for help?   accompanied by loss of coordination, (eg, epilepsy);
• with severe renal dysfunction;
• in the first three months of pregnancy (in other periods of pregnancy - only on prescription) and during lactation Breast-feeding: feed - and no nails!   child.