Gastroenteritis

The article, “Is contaminated groundwater an important cause of viral gastroenteritis in the United States?”, by Floyd Frost, Twila Kunde, and Gunther Craun, published in the Journal of Environmental Health, October 2002, describes how due to the contamination of groundwater, from sources such as runoff and sewage treatment plant effluents, many studies have been conducted regarding human health risks from potential viruses in groundwater. Waterborne outbreaks often occur, and are probably…

Reviewed by: Body text starts here: Opening: Rotavirus can be very dangerous, since it imposes severe consequences on its patients. So what can you do to protect your loved ones from this virus? Body: Rotavirus is a virus that brings about gastroenteritis, which is inflammation of the intestines and stomach. It is contagious, thus, be careful when making contact with the…

Acute pancreatitis occurs when the pancreas becomes severely inflamed (Buttaro, Terry, Trybulski, Bailey, Sandberg-Cook, 2013). The patient with pancreatitis usually present with a dull, boring pain of steady onset that gradually intensified until its really severe. The pain is usually in the mid-epigastric or upper abdomen. But it can also be on the left or right side. The pain may also radiate through the abdomen to the back. The pain usually last more than a day. Other symptoms often include…

study, women with phobic anxiety are 59% more likely to have a heart attack, and 31% more likely to die from one. 1. Phobic anxiety is the fear of certain objects or situations. In 2007 New Zealand studied subjects with gastroenteritis have higher anxiety levels. 7.Gastroenteritis is inflammation of your digestive track. Having an anxiety disorder can impact your body and day-to-day life, in many different…

Anyone can be infected will salmonella, however children under the age of 5 are mostly affect to this disease. “Salmonella Typhimurium causes gastroenteritis (inflammation? of the gut) leading to diarrhoea, vomiting, fever, and abdominal cramps. These symptoms may last up to seven days” (yourgenome). On the other hand, salmonella typhi symptom Include fever related signs such as most appetite, fatigue…

it especially those infants with special needs. Infants are not immunized until 2 months old except for the hepatitis B that can be given at birth that leads to their vulnerability and an increase risk of contracting infection such as acute gastroenteritis (AGE) (Bonig…

enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus is one of the bacteria that produce enterotoxin (Schelin et al., 2011). Most of previous research, an occurrence of enterotoxigenic S. aureus in food caused one the most frequent microbial diseases which known as Gastroenteritis due to the ingestion of food contaminated with staphylococcal enterotoxins. Staphylococcal food poisoning caused by the enterotoxigenic producing S. aureus which is main foodborne disease throughout the world (Argudín et al., 2010).…

in other countries. The producers or growers of the food ship it to America where we then distribute it to wholesalers. Along the shipping route, there is great chance that contamination of the food may occur. This contamination can lead to gastroenteritis, a condition with unpleasant symptoms and could even lead to death. In today’s lecture I was more surprised about the other ways that food can become contaminated. It is throughout the production of the food itself, that there is even more…

Medical professionals should not use medicines like poop pill and cockroaches because of their diseases. In the world many animals carry diseases and many of those disease could be dangerous or even deadly for all the doctors know so why should anyone take the chance of harming more of themselves. Most patients of doctors could be overweight or in other words obeses, some medical professionals give these poop pills to their patients so that they can loss their weight. Vomiting or gagging is…

The most common cause of death was anorectal malformation followed by gastroenteritis. In this study, males were more commonly affected than females. Congenital malformations that exist more commonly in males have also been reported in other studies.17, khan study. Herbert A Obu et al (2012) study revealed that, surgical birth…