Such intestinal infections usually occur unexpectedly and ruin everything planned because they have unpleasant symptoms. Doctors unanimously say that all this is due to neglect of hygiene. Also, you can catch an infection if you eat unhealthy foods or stale food.
Microbes can hide on money, door handles, a keyboard, handrails in public transport and on other various subjects surrounding us, which we use everyday. Insects can also carry an infection, for example, flies on their paws can carry around thirty thousand menacing microbes. However, there are more than 30 dangerous infections: dysentery, typhoid fever, salmonellosis, cholera and others. This is not all the reasons that can cause an intestinal infection, this kind of infection can be transmitted by airborne method.
Who is at risk of getting sick?
People who have a weak immune system are most susceptible to this disease, and also people with gastritis with low acidity, colitis, ulcers, or inflammatory processes in the gastrointestinal tract. The risk is susceptible to babies and elderly people, they even a small number of microbes can cause the violation of the intestinal tract, nervous system, liver, heart and other organs.
People with good health are less prone to intestinal infections. This is from what the nature has already awarded them with unique shields that keep them from disease. These shields are gastric juice and bile, which possess a disinfecting property, immunity, microflora of the gastrointestinal tract, intestinal peristalsis, and gag reflex. If any link of this chain weakens, bacteria and various viruses immediately attack our organism.
Where is the danger hidden?
Dangerous intestinal infections and their pathogens can remain active in various conditions, for example, in food, most of them in meat and dairy, tamoni and multiply, releasing toxins. Microbes can survive in water, earth and other surfaces that we touch with our hands. This infection can persist at a temperature below zero, which is why it will not be difficult for her to get into the ice, which later will be filled with a cocktail, whiskey, or tequila. Doctors, among all these intestinal infections, which are generated by unwashed hands, identified several of the most, so to speak, popular and dangerous:
- A disease called dysentery. It proceeds with acute, spasmodic pain in the abdomen, as well as pains in the rectum and frequent urges to emptying, more than ten times a day, with an admixture of mucus and blood in the stool.
- This is a terrible word salmonellosis. His companions are vomiting, he has all the symptoms of food poisoning. The body temperature does not rise in the mild forms of this disease.
- Enterovirus, rotavirus. These infections are accompanied by multiple stools, there are cases of skin rashes. These symptoms are also supplemented by catarrhal symptoms. They are called - intestinal flu.
- Such a disease, like typhoid fever, begins with malaise and palpable weakness, but within a couple of days the temperature can jump significantly, up to forty degrees. This disease is characterized by headache, insomnia, constipation or diarrhea, swelling, a rash on the abdomen, breasts, lack of appetite. Some cases may be accompanied by swelling of the tongue and even a clouding of consciousness.
- Such an insidious disease as cholera occurs without elevated body temperature, but with diarrhea. She threatens dehydration. But this disease is almost uncharacteristic for the present, and if it gets sick, then after resting in exotic places.
How to avoid these terrible diseases?
As often wash your hands with soap. If you think that in this way harm the skin, buy a more gentle liquid soap and use an emollient cream. Products should be bought only in the store, if you make purchases on the market, or at wholesale warehouses, ask the seller for a certificate confirming the quality. Even if you are buying products in the store, pay attention to the expiration dates of the products, study the conditions of preservation and the quality of the packaging material itself. Before eating, thoroughly wash fruits or vegetables, before cooking, always wash fish or meat. If you follow these simple recommendations, you can protect yourself and your family from dangerous infectious diseases of the intestinal tract, the development of which, most often, contribute to dirty hands.
And also remember, if someone from your family has symptoms of any of the above intestinal diseases, be sure to seek help from a doctor! He will recommend the drugs necessary for recovery. Still adhere to the rules of the home: give the patient a separate bowl, rest the boil, the other flushes carefully monitor their own hygiene, do cleaning with disinfectants, ventilate the rooms.
And when you go to the amendment, do not rush to all products at once and eat everything that comes to your eyes. Sit on the crockery, drink.
Modern medicine has a tremendous amount of way to get rid of an unpleasant disease. So do not risk your health, do not take self-medication, but immediately react! The sooner you learn it, the more you get help and get better sooner.
Remember, you can not try to stop vomiting or diarrhea, as this is a protective reaction to your body's infection. Do not block it! Try to compensate for the loss of fluid. If vomiting does not stop, take medication, but only after consulting a doctor!