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Diagnosis

Symptoms include: High fever/chills, abdominal pain, cramps and bloating, flatulence, constant need to pass stool, loss of appetite, weight loss, headache, fatigue, vomiting and dehydration.

If several symptoms are present there are two tests that can be done:

Physical Exam:

Testing for dry mouth, skin and lips or lower abdominal tenderness.

Stool/blood test:

Stool can be sampled to find Shigella and Campylobacter bacteria, if inconclusive, blood tests can be sampled to find abnormal levels of minerals and salts.

Dysentery

Dysentery [dis-uh n-ter-ee] Is a digestive system disorder

By: Madison Kretz

Ayesha Ahmad

Treatment

The body is often able to rid itself of dysentery but if not, patients can undergo rehydration therapy where fluids are pumped into them until they can drink on their own.

If the disease is severe then antibiotics will be given to patients with bacillary dysentery and amoebicidal drugs will be given to patients with amoebiasis. The two types of medication target either amoeba or bacteria.

History

-Many fatal cases of dysentery have appeared throughout history including a major outbreak in WWII but it has since stayed under control in the developed world.

-Largely present 1700-1800s caused several thousand deaths

-90 percents of all deaths in some areas of Sweden were because of Dysentery

-Most severe outbreaks were in 1773, 1808 and 1857

-Still a major concern in developing countries not very common in western

-Regularly recurring disease

Explanation of disease

- Amoeba or bacteria cause the disease, borrowing into the colon lining and breaking capillaries and causing blood to leak into feces

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Changes in treatment throuout the past 100 years

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1916

- Biologists in Africa are currently testing how effective african mistletoe is on Dysentery

- Morphine introduced into the treatment of Dysentery

- Mainly for hospice situations

- still used today

Types Of Dysentery

What Is It?

2005

1962

Amoebic dysentery:

-Occurs in warm climates

-Spread through contaminated food and water

- Called Amoebiasis

- Caused by amoeba (single celled, can change shape)

Bacillary dysentery:

- Caused by bacterium (single celled organisms, move in groups, cause diseases)

-Stronger form of shigellosis

- Usually contracted in colder climates

-Caused by a type of Shigella bacteria

Dysentery is a digestive system disorder. It occurs when amoeba or bacteria get into in the intestines and result in severe bloody/mucus filled feces and diarrhea. The amoeba or bacteria that cause the disease, borrow into the colon lining and break capillaries. The blood released is added to the feces and leaves the body.

- They began to do more extensive research on Dysentery

- result of Enos (the first space chimp) developed it during his first mission

*Both types are contracted through food, drink, or close contact with a carrier of the disease*

- Mexican researchers found that the roots of Geranium mexicanum helps with the symptoms

- studies showed that supplemental zinc boosts the immune system during acute shigellosis

Preventative Measures

  • Avoid contact with a contaminated person
  • Food should be properly prepared and cooked
  • Use purified water for drinking, cleaning, brushing teeth, and other uses that would bring water in close contact with you
  • Practice good hygiene.
  • Most outbreaks occur in places where good hygiene is not followed like in tropical destinations, this is why these precautions should be followed more closely while on vacation

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