What is bacillary dysentery?

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Bacillary dysentery, also known as shigellosis, is an intestinal infectious disease caused by Shigella. After Shigella infects human body through digestive tract, it causes inflammation and ulcer of colonic mucosa, and releases toxin into blood. What is bacillary dysentery? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What is bacillary dysentery?

The common type (typical) is characterized by acute onset, moderate toxemia, chills, fever up to 39 ℃, fatigue, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, diarrhea, diarrhea and diarrhea. The first is thin watery stool. After 1-2 days, the thin stool turns into purulent bloody stool. Defecate dozens of times a day, the amount is small, and the water loss is not significant. It is often accompanied by high bowel sounds and tenderness in the left lower abdomen. The general course of disease is 10-14 days.

Mild (atypical) systemic poisoning symptoms, abdominal pain, tenesmus, left lower abdominal tenderness are not obvious, there may be low fever, paste or watery stool, mixed with a small amount of mucus, no pus and blood, general diarrhea frequency less than 10 times a day. Fecal microscopic examination of red and white blood cells, culture of Shigella growth, can be distinguished from acute enteritis. The general course of disease is 3-6 days.

Severe type is more common in elderly patients with weak or malnutrition. There were severe systemic and intestinal symptoms. Acute onset, high fever, nausea, vomiting, severe abdominal pain and abdominal tenderness (especially in the left lower abdomen), severe back pain, bloody purulence, frequent defecation, and even incontinence. Rapid progress of the disease, obvious water loss, cold limbs, extreme failure, prone to shock.

matters needing attention

Timely detection of patients and carriers, and effective isolation and thorough treatment, until the stool culture negative. Focus on the monitoring of workers in catering industry, conservation and water works. The infected people should be isolated immediately and given thorough treatment. Chronic patients and carriers are not allowed to work in the above industries.