Communicable disease (GIT system)
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Mot: 5Fs
Food, finger, feces, fly, fomites
Painful diarrhea
Dysentery
Painful defecation
Tenesmus
High volume diarrhea
>1L per day
Low volume diarrhea
<1L per day
Invasive diarrhea
Blood/pus stool
Amoebiasis is also called
Amoebic dysentery
CA of amoebiasis
Entamoeba histolica
IP of amoebiasis
3days-4weeks
Mot of amoebiasis
Fecal oral, anal sex
Two types of infection in amoebiasis
Cyst- semiformed stool, inactive Tropozite-active type,diarrhea
Dx test of amoebiasis
Stool examination
Acute amoebiasis
Diarrhea, mucus, cramping
Chronic amoebiasis
Blood and pus in stool or gangrenous type
Doc in amoebiasis
metronidazole
Mngt in metronidazole
No alcohol can cause disulfiram effect If allergic to metronidazole tetracycline but avoid in 8y/o and below
Cholera is also known as
Eltor
IP of cholera
Few hrs -5days
MOT in cholera
Fecal oral
SOI in cholera
Feces
Vehicle of cholera
Water
Pathognomonic signs of cholera
Rice watery stool
Complications of cholera
Hypovolemic shock bc it causes severe dhn high volume like 1-30L per day so WOF hypokalemia and metabolic acidosis
Signs and symptoms of cholera
Abdominal or colicky pain Fever Washer woman hand syndrome Aphonia
Mngt of cholera
Volume per volume replacement WOF hypokalemia Concurrent disinfection
Doc on cholera
Tetracycline and doxycycline if allergic Cipro and azuthro
Who discovered that the vehicle in cholera is water
Jon snow
Typhoid fever or
Enteric fever
CA of typhoid fever
Salmonella typhoid found in small intestine in payers patches wherein kinakain niya Hanggang mabutas
Mot of typhoid fever
Fecal oral, raw chicken------fly is the vehicle
IP of typhoid fever
5-40days
What is the onset stage of typhoid fever
FLS Rose spots seen in trunk Fever that is ladderlike
Typhoid stage of typhoid fever
Toxemia, delirium, perforation, peritonitis
Dx of typhoid fever
Blood culture Widals and typhidot test
Most reliable test in typhoid
Typhidot
Complication of typhoid fever
Peritonitis and septicemia
Vaccines to prevent typhoid fever
Typhoid V- parenteral, can be given 6y/o below, two weeks before travel, 12 yrs immunity Vivotif-oral, last dose must be 1week before the travel,4doses, 5yrs immunity, do not give in 6y/o and below
Doc in typhoid fever
Chloramphenicol-phlebitis, soluset Or ciprofloxacin