Acute gastroenteritis is an infectious disease of the alimentary tract that may be caused by one or more bacterial, viral, or protozoal pathogens producing damage, either structural or functional, of variable extent and severity to the mucosa. Acute gastroenteritis is a very common diagnosis in ...
Gastroenteritis is when your stomach and intestines are irritated and inflamed. This can cause belly pain, cramping, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. The cause is typically inflammation triggered by your immune system's response to a viral or bacterial infection. However, infections caused by fungi ...
The cause is typically inflammation triggered by your immune system's response to a viral or bacterial infection. However, infections caused by fungi or parasites or irritation from chemicals can also lead to gastroenteritis. Gastroenteritis is when you have infection and inflammation in your stomach ...
Gastroenteritis, as defined above, has many causes, but the most frequent causes are viral and bacterial. Other causes vary greatly, such as parasites, toxins, food allergies, and medications. Many of the causes of gastroenteritis actually go on to develop additional gastrointestinal symptoms that a...
Gastroenteritis is a relatively common illness and the length of time it lasts can vary significantly from person to person. Depending on whether it is viral or bacterial, gastroenteritis can affect adults for up to a week, although symptoms should start to ease two days after they develop. ...
Multiplex PCR testing on stool samples can rapidly identify bacterial, viral and protozoa associated with diarrheal illness. Treatment Medical therapy is not necessary in the majority of patients with nonsevere viral GE. The most important aspect of treatment of acute viral GE is hydration and ...
Gastroenteritis is a very common disease; most people are at some risk to encounter the wide-spread causes (mainly viral and bacterial). This risk is due to poor hygiene of a few people with the disease that may be encountered frequently in daily living (for example, infants, children, or...
Viral: Norovirus (common) Rotavirus (common) Enteric adenovirus Astrovirus Immunocompromised patients : Cytomegalovirus Enterovirus Bacterial: Salmonella (common) Campylobacter (common) Shigella Escherichia coli (E. coli) Clostridium Yersinia Parasitic: Giardia lamblia Entamoeba histolytica Cryptosporidium ...
Viralgastroenteritisis the second most common illness in the U.S. The cause is often a norovirus infection. (Gastroenteritis, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) Gastroenteritisis an inflammation of the lining of the intestines caused by a virus, bacteria or paras...
Vomiting is said to be the forceful throwing up of stomach contents through the mouth, which can be caused by several factors such as food poisoning or viral or bacterial infections of the intestines resulting in gastroenteritis. In giving first aid...