TRAVELER'S DIARRHEA
Disease information
TRAVELER'S DIARRHEA
The diarrea of the tourist or diarrea of the traveller, is
a
suffering that is characterized by the continuous evacuation of soft or
liquid
fecal matter, between five or six times per day and that lasts of two to four days.
Some studies have demonstrated that from 20 to 50% of the people who
travel
they get to suffer diarrea,
but
the incidence varies much depending on the destiny place.
This suffering is caused by diverse
bacteria
, virus and protozoarios, nevertheless 40% of the cases must to stocks of the Escherichia bacterium coli that, when penetrating in the thin
intestine
, produces
a
toxin that it induces to the
intestinal
wall to extract great amounts of water and salt.
Although the heavy
intestine
can absorb several liters of
liquid
to the day, is saturated quickly by the excess that flows from the thin
intestine
what produces the diarrea.
The diarreicos pictures go accompanied of abdominal cólicos, you feel nauseous and vomits that are finished when the
bacteria
eliminate themselves when leaving with the
liquid
.
Other organisms that habitually cause diarrea of the tourist are the
bacteria
, are: the Shigella and the
Salmonella
, diverse virus and protozoarios, like the Giardia lamdia or parasites like the Cryptosporidium, that is in the water.
IMPORTANT the content of this note is informative and it does not replace the medical diagnosis, reason why we do not become people in
charge
on its use.
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