Amebic dysentery

Introduction: Amebic dysentery

Amebic dysentery: Ameba-caused bacterial bowel infection and ulceration. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Amebic dysentery is available below.

Symptoms of Amebic dysentery

• No symptoms - some people are symptomless carriers
• Onset may be sudden or over years
• Mild early symptoms - when onset is slow
• Weight loss
• Anemia

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Home Diagnostic Testing

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Medical Textbooks Online about Amebic dysentery

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Diagnostic Tests for Amebic dysentery

• Stool tests

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Amebic dysentery?

• Misdiagnosis of Amebic dysentery
• Underlying causes of Amebic dysentery (possibly wrongly diagnosed)

Misdiagnosis and Amebic dysentery

Chronic digestive conditions often misdiagnosed: When diagnosing chronic symptoms of the digestive tract, there are a variety of conditions that may be misdiagnosed....read more »

Intestinal bacteria disorder may be hidden cause: One of the lesser known causes of diarrhea is an imbalance of bacterial in the gut, sometimes called intestinal imbalance. The digestive...read more »

Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely to cause some level of diarrhea in patients. The reason is that antibiotics kill off not only "bad" bacteria, but can also kill the "good" bacteria...read more »

Food poisoning may actually be an infectious disease: Many people who come down with "stomach symptoms" like diarrhea assume that it's "something...read more »

Mesenteric adenitis misdiagnosed as appendicitis in children: Because appendicitis is one of the more feared conditions for a child with abdominal pain, it can...read more »

Celiac disease often fails to be diagnosed cause of chronic digestive symptoms: One of the most common chronic digestive conditions is celiac disease, a malabsorption disorder with a variety of symptoms (see symptoms of celiac...read more »

Chronic digestive diseases hard to diagnose: There is an inherent difficulty in diagnosing the various types of chronic digestive diseases. Some of the better known possibilities are peptic ulcer, colon cancer,...read more »

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Causes of Amebic dysentery

• Bowel ulceration

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More information about causes of Amebic dysentery:

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Treatments for Amebic dysentery

• Antibiotics
• Nitroimidazole drugs
• Diloxamide furoate

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Prevention of Amebic dysentery

Prevention information for Amebic dysentery has been compiled from various data sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete. None of these methods guarantee prevention of Amebic dysentery.

• Avoid contaminated food
• Keep food away from flies
• Avoid contaminated water

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Definitions of Amebic dysentery:

Inflammation of the intestines caused by Endamoeba histolytica; usually acquired by ingesting food or water contaminated with feces; characterized by severe diarrhea - (Source - WordNet 2.1)