Diarrhoeia ...

The diarrhoeia (diarrhoeia) is too frequent deflation an intestine at which fecal masses have a soft or liquid consistence.

As an acute diarrhoeia understand change of a consistence of a feces, augmentation of frequency of defecations (more than 3 times a day) lasting less than 4 weeks. Though in most cases the diarrhoeia stops independently, the acute diarrhoeia still remains the important component of a case rate and a mortality, in particular at children and elderly persons. The acute diarrhoeia concerns polyetiological diseases. Reception of medicinal preparations, infectious originators or their toxins, inflammatory or ischemic diseases of the intestine, not absorbed carbohydrates, an inflammation concern possible causal factors in a small basin (for example, at a rectosigmoid abscess). Viruses serve In the developed countries as the most frequent reason of a diarrhoeia (adenoviruses, rotaviruses, viruses Norwalk).

Virus diarrhoeia. Among various variants of a virus diarrhoeia the greatest clinical value have a diarrhoeia rotaviruses aetiologies (the most frequent form of an infectious diarrhoeia at children), a diarrhoeia caused by a virus Norfolk, and also adeno - and astroviruses. In a clinical picture of a virus diarrhoeia attracts attention a frequent combination of diarrheas and a fever with diarrheal disorders, and it is frequent (at rotaviruses to a diarrhoeia) and with a lesion of the top respiratory tracts. The diagnosis proves to be true at virus detection in a feces by means of a submicroscopy or at carrying out of special immunologic researches (for example, with monoclonal antibodies). A current of a diarrhoeia of a virus parentage usually favorable. Duration of disease does not exceed, as a rule, 35 days. Treatment is symptomatic and is reduced to elimination of vodno-ELECTROLYTIC disturbances.

The diarrhoeia can develop at intestinal infections, various inflammatory diseases of an intestine (for example, at a colitis), alarm, and also at a syndrome of a boring of a colon. Strong or too longly lasting diarrhoeia can lead to appreciable loss by an organism of a liquid, salts and nutrients.

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