- Stomach flu - rotavirus infection of the new sample
- Diagnosis and treatment
As infected stomach flu
Gastric or intestinal flu
Intestinal flu - rotavirus which affects the intestinal tract
is an infection that is caused by rotavirus, and accompanied by vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and general violations of the patient.
You can become infected with rotavirus by a sick person by direct contact (for example, when a handshake), through various objects, which he enjoyed, food, water. Sometimes gastric flu outbreaks occur in camps, located near water (infection occurs by ingestion of water). But more often this disease affects children of preschool age. After recovery, recover from a person for a period of time can be a carrier of the virus and it can be infected with rotavirus.
Once in the body rotavirus settled in the small intestine, it is embedded in the wall and begins to multiply, inhibiting the enzymatic activity of the intestine. Reduced secretion of enzymes leads to the fact that disrupted cleavage complex carbohydrates, they accumulate in the intestine, attracting the water - there is diarrhea.
Symptoms of stomach flu
After contact with the infectious agent into the human body passes from one to five days before showing signs of disease. This time period is called the incubation period. After that, the child is usually high fever (sometimes the temperature rise does not happen), there are nausea, vomiting, abundant loose, watery stools and abdominal cramping
Abdominal pain: Types and Symptoms
. If moderate course of disease vomiting is usually not more than 4 times per day, loose stools - more than 10 times. In severe cases, vomiting and diarrhea are permanent, the child loses fluid and dehydration occurs.
The chair at the stomach flu is foamy-watery and pronounced odor. It occurs during the lung disease without an increase in temperature and a more formalized (mushy) chair.
Stomach flu is always accompanied by great weakness and malaise, these symptoms are all the more pronounced, the more the child loses fluid. The loss of large amounts of fluid is accompanied by changes in the body, called exsicosis. The child has a characteristic form: facial features are sharp, his eyes sunken, his lips dry and cracked, he was constantly asked to drink.
Since the stomach flu is a viral infection, it is almost always accompanied by a small lesion of the upper respiratory tract, which is manifested cough and runny nose.
Diagnosis and treatment of gastric flu
Diagnosis of gastric flu can be suspected in the mass infection of people in the community, and manifestations of disease, characteristic of rotavirus. Before laboratory confirmation of the disease is considered to be simply an intestinal infection. In a laboratory study of feces and vomit in the virology laboratory they found rotaviruses. In the blood of patients can also detect antibodies
Antibodies - "soldiers' immunity
to rotavirus. But as virology lab is not everywhere, the diagnosis of rotavirus infection is rarely placed.
Specific treatment of gastric flu does not exist. Over the course of the disease is observed, making up for the loss of body fluids (child watered spoon various liquids: slabozavarennogo tea, salt solutions, just water). If a patient shows signs of exsicosis, it is hospitalized and intravenously injected the fluid, thus preventing further dehydration.
The disease stomach flu
Influenza - expect the unexpected but always
It is the enzyme deficiency, so patients are appointed by the enzymes in the form of medications (eg, festal). Patients received diet food - boiled only pureed food. Eating need 5-6 times a day, in a small volume. For removal from the intestine of toxic substances and pathogens prescribed medications that they can absorb and excrete.
Since the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract is inflamed, there is activation of conditionally pathogenic and can join a bacterial infection. To avoid this, the patient is prescribed probiotics (beneficial bacteria they contain - the inhabitants of the human intestine) and prebiotics (contain substances that promote self-reproduction of normal intestinal microflora).
Gastric flu prevention is personal hygiene.
Galina Romanenko
