fatigue may develop. Typhoid fever also affects the digestive system, this leads to stomach pain, diarrhea, and weight loss. Once the typhoid fever reaches the bloodstream will spread to the organs, such as the lungs, kidneys, liver, etc, this can be fatal.(MAYOCLINIC) Salmonella is caused by eating raw or undercooked meat, poultry, eggs or egg products. Symptoms are nausea, vomit, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, fever, chills, headache, and blood in the…
there were four sero-positive cases in children (with age group between 9 and ≤ 12 years); two cases in adolescents (with age group between 12 and ≤ 16 years) and two cases in adults (with age group 16-21 years). Intestinal manifestations, chronic diarrhea, recurrent abdominal pain/ distension, recurrent aphtha's stomatitis, anemia and bleeding tendency were significantly more common in sero-positive cases (P=0.001, 0.001, 0.016, 0.00, 0.001and 0.04 respectively). All sero-positive cases (100%)…
the market. When should you avoid Citicoline? If one is pregnant or on breastfeeding, then the use of Citicoline must be avoided as it may bring up some serious health problems. The side effects of prolonged use of this supplement are nausea, and diarrhea. Therefore, if such side effects show up, the supplement must be discontinued at once. Quantity to be…
Crohn's disease is a disease in which there is inflammation in the lining of your digestive tract. This serious condition can lead to abdominal pain, severe diarrhea, fatigue, weight loss, and malnutrition. Inflammation can involve different areas of the digestive tract in different people. In most often spreads deep into the layers of affected bowel tissue. It may be painful or debilitating and can cause life threatening issues. There is no known cure for Crohn's disease, but therapies and…
can result in kidney failure and loss of red blood cells. This infection has also been linked to the development of IBS. E. coli O157:H7 causes bloody diarrhea without fever, and is considered to be moderately invasive since it doesn’t spread throughout the body like other strains. An E. coli infection can cause abdominal cramping, watery diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. Treatment for E. coli infections can include antibiotics, but it is important to note that antibiotics do not improve the…
Allergic asthma and rhinitis, atopic dermatitis (AD), urticaria and gastrointestinal allergy, are common diseases of infants and children. It was recently estimated that 14% of children suffer from AD, 8% from food allergy, and 12% from asthma (1, 2). The cumulated incidence of these diseases in adolescents has been estimated between 25-35%, while the prevalence is about 20% (3). The phenotypic expression of these illnesses varies extensively, being very mild in some cases, severe in many, and…
Katia Leon Mrs. Stafstrom U.S history -3rd hour Oct.16,2015 word count:420 Disease during the Civil War During the Civil war hospital, condition weren’t the best due to the lack of clean practices and the lack of modern instruments. And some treatments for diseases were highly dangerous to people’s health. All this plus the wounds that soldiers received during battle caused approximately 620,000 soldiers deaths during the war. of these 620,000 2/3ths of the deaths were due to…
Introduction Hirschsprung disease is a rare condition in which nerve cells that control contractions are missing from part of the large intestine (colon). The colon absorbs fluids and holds stool so that it can be passed out of the body with movements called contractions. In Hirschsprung disease, the colon has trouble moving stool out through the rectum. This leads to constipation. This condition is most commonly diagnosed at birth or shortly after. What are the causes? The cause of this…
in respect to its heat resistance; where they can survive cooking at high temperature (100OC for >2h). Symptoms of C. perfringens gastro-intestinal illness in 646 cases from 10 districts of Kyushu between January 2000 and December 2004, which were diarrhea, vomiting, fever, abdominal pain, and headache, where the incubation period was (10.7 hr), with less common vomiting (22%). Sayeed et al. (2005) mentioned that most C. perfringens (type D) isolates produce epsilon toxin. In case of IV…
INTRODUCTION Environmental health as defined by the World Health Organization document of 1999 are the aspects of the human health and disease that are determined by factors in the environment. It also involves the practice of assessing and controlling factors in the environment that can potentially and affect health. Environmental health also includes both the direct pathological effects of chemicals, radiation and some biological agents, and the effects on health and wellbeing of the broad…