Gastroenteritis

• Cholera
  

• People lie and get sick from dehydration causing the electrolyte imbalance
• You must replace fluid and electrolytes to keep people healthy

• The E. coli strain that is in water in foreign place is new to your system and makes you sick
• Nursery diarrhea - epidemic at one time
• Changing diaper after diaper without washing hands gets organism transferred between infants - introduction of the next strain
• Travelers diarrhea

• Custard is essentially a good culture media
• Pastries , processed meats, fish
• It produces a toxin that stimulates vomiting center,

• Neurotoxin that has broader effect then the toxin of staph
• Highest mortality rate of all these even with care
• Sustained heat is only way to kill it, microwave leaves pockets that survive

• Found in poultry
• Self limiting
• Can be carrier without being very sick
• Blood testing for antibodies is negative b/c it collects in the feces
• Montezuma's revenge - testing differentiates between the travelers diarrhea

Category: Gastroenterology Notes , Medicine Notes