What's the difference between adenovirus and rotavirus?

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Adenoviral gastroenteritis, also known as viral diarrhea, is a group of acute intestinal infectious diseases caused by a variety of viruses. The clinical features are acute onset, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, watery stool or loose stool, fever and general discomfort. The course of disease is short and the mortality is low. The clinical manifestations of gastroenteritis caused by various viruses are basically similar. There are many kinds of viruses related to acute gastroenteritis, among which rotavirus is the most important one. Let's talk about the symptoms of adenovirus enteritis.

What's the difference between adenovirus and rotavirus?

The incubation period of common rotavirus gastroenteritis was 1-3 days. The symptoms of children aged from 6 to 24 months were severe, while most of the older children or adults had mild or subclinical infection. The onset was acute, mostly vomiting first and then diarrhea, accompanied by mild and moderate fever. Diarrhea varies from ten to dozens of times a day. Most of the stools are watery, or yellow green, with mild or moderate dehydration and metabolic poisoning. Some cases often have upper respiratory tract infection before gastrointestinal symptoms. The disease is a self limited disease with a course of about one week. However, a small number of children still have disaccharide, especially lactose malabsorption, diarrhea can last for weeks, individual can be as long as months.

The incubation period of adult diarrhea rotavirus gastroenteritis is 2-3 days. The onset is acute. Most of them have no fever or only low fever. The main symptoms are diarrhea, abdominal pain and abdominal distension. Diarrhea varies from 3 to 10 times a day, with yellow water or rice soup like stool, without pus and blood. Some cases were accompanied with nausea and vomiting. The course of disease is 3-6 days, sometimes more than 10 days.

For children with viral enteritis, it is mainly caused by rotavirus, and this disease is generally popular among adults and older children, and even affects our intestines and stomach, causing gastroenteritis and other phenomena. Therefore, the onset of this disease is more acute, and sometimes water or egg like feces will appear in diarrhea, But this kind of excrement doesn't smell fishy.

matters needing attention

For the emergence of this disease, we must go to the hospital for timely examination and treatment, to prevent more serious complications, but the emergence of this disease is also more painful, often diarrhea, and will lead to dehydration and even shock and other symptoms, so we must add good water.