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Amoebic Dysentery

How is it Spread?

  • Anyone who is not immune
  • Increased susceptibility through:
  • over crowded and unclean environments
  • Fertilizer made with human feces
  • People who do not wash their hands
  • Spread through contaminated water and food

www.webmd.boots.com/digestive-disorders/ameobic-dysentry

Life Cycle of a Protist

  • Alternate between asexual and sexual reproduction
  • Asexual production:
  • binary fission
  • sporogenesis

Before we learn about Amoebic Dysentery....

Asexual Reproduction:(cloning) genetic replication by one organism. Each cell produced has the same genetic makeup.

Sexual Reproduction: Two organisms required. Each resulting cell has it's own unique genetic makeup.

www.health.ny.gov/disease/communicable/amebiasis

Katie Carpenter

Gia Hoegh

What are the Odds?

  • More common in developing countries

- 5000-10,000 cases diagnosed in U.S. annually

www.medicalnewstoday.com/aritcles

Complications

  • Parasites can get into blood stream and infect other parts of the body... most commonly the Liver
  • Symptoms for signs of infected liver:
  • cough
  • weakness
  • high fever

www.webmd.boots.com/digestive-disorders/ameobic-dysentry

What is Amoebic

Dysentery?

  • An intestinal infection
  • Caused by Protozoan Entamoeba Histolytica
  • Occurs when a cyst passes through the intestines and then breaks open in the stomach resulting in infection
  • Cysts exit through feces
  • Cysts are still able to live in feces

www.webd.boots.com/digestive-disorders/ameobic-dysentry

Symptoms

Symptoms can last for days or weeks but...Parasites can live in the bowel for months sometimes years

(Can occur within 10 days)

www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/amebiasis

  • severe diarrhea
  • mild abdominal discomfort
  • constipation
  • stool containing blood and/or mucus
  • Chills
  • High fever
  • Weight loss
  • Loss of appetite
  • Vomiting

www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/ameabiasis/

Diagnosis

  • Microscope evaluation of stool
  • trophozoites
  • cysts
  • X-Rays
  • CT scans
  • Ultrasounds
  • Colonoscopy

www.webmd.boots.com/digestive-disorders/ameobic-dysentery

Treatment

  • Plenty of fluids
  • Eat whenever possible

Most cases go away within a few days or weeks

www.webmd.boots.com/ameobic-dysentery

Prevention

At home...

  • Wash hands before eating and after going to the bathroom
  • Avoid unclean kitchens and lavatories
  • Avoid contact with infected people
  • Avoid sharing towels

Prevention cont.

www.webmd.boots.com/ameobicdysentery

WORKS CITED:

Abroad...

  • Avoid tap water
  • utilize purifying tablets and filters
  • Avoid drinks with ice
  • Avoid unpasteurized milk and dairy products
  • Avoid raw fruit and vegetables
  • Avoid food sold by vendors

www.webmd.boots.com/ameobic-dysentery

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Amebiasis(Ameobic Dysentery).(2011 October 1). Retrieved October 25th, 2015, from https://www.helath.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/amebiasis/

Dysenery: Ameobic Dysentery. (n.d.) Retrieved October 25th, 2015, from http://www.webmd.boots.com/digestive-disorders/ameobic-dysentery

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