Poisoning?! How often do we encounter him in everyday life. We are engaged in "self-medication".
A common cause of poisoning can be an acute intestinal infection.
One option for acute intestinal infections is salmonellosis. According to the frequency of occurrence, it is one of the most popular forms of acute intestinal infections (ACI), inferior only to dysentery.
Due to the prevalence of this disease, the symptoms of salmonellosis are of genuine interest to both medical workers and ordinary people, who are most often the patients themselves.
What you need to know? What are the most common and significant symptoms of salmonellosis?
It is worth noting that there are several forms of salmonellosis that distinguish depending on the location of the infectious agent and the place of its harmful effects.
One of the forms, the gastrointestinal, is most common. It is characterized by abdominal pain, diarrhea, and profuse vomiting. Symptoms of salmonellosis of this form also include the characteristic symptoms of intoxication: headache, weakness, chills, dizziness, high temperatures (up to thirty-eight - forty-one degrees), pain and aches throughout the body. The duration of this disease is from three to eight days.
Typhoid-like - this form of salmonellosis is characterized by a strong and prolonged (up to two weeks) fever. The most pronounced symptoms are symptoms of intoxication (lethargy, fatigue, headache). Sometimes, with this form of acute intestinal infection , a rash appears.
The last and most severe form of salmonellosis is the septic form. During the first days after the development of infection, the disease develops in the form of sepsis. This form is the most dangerous for the life and health of the patient, due to the rapid deterioration.
These signs of salmonellosis are the main, but rare forms are possible, the manifestation of which will be excellent. As for the disease itself, it is worth noting that after recovery in 20% of cases, carriage of bacteria is observed, that is, the patient himself is a source of infection. Basically, such carriage is short-lived, but in some cases chronic carriage can develop, which is extremely unfavorable in the epidemic sense and requires repeated treatment in order to eradicate the infectious agent from the human body.
Treatment of salmonellosis in adults is reduced to the initial cleansing of the body of a dangerous agent, for this purpose, washing of the stomach and intestines is performed. To eliminate intoxication, it is necessary to provide the patient with hot drink. As medical agents, the use of antispasmodics and antibiotics is indicated. Of the antibiotics, penicillins and fluoroquinolones are most commonly used. It is worth remembering that the duration of taking antibiotics should be at least five days, and in severe cases (with prolonged illness) until the third day from the time of recovery.
Important in the treatment is a strict diet. The diet should be built on the principles of mechanical and chemical sparing of the gastrointestinal tract. The use of milk is strictly prohibited.
Signs - the symptoms of salmonellosis are indicative (diagnostically significant). That is, it is the symptoms of salmonella infection, as well as the results of bacterial culture, that are a reliable sign of a correctly diagnosed diagnosis.
Thus, salmonellosis is one of the most common forms of acute intestinal infections requiring a thorough treatment approach.