Dysentery

Introduction: Dysentery

Dysentery: A general term for various bacterial digestive disorders. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Dysentery is available below.

Symptoms of Dysentery

• Abdominal pain
• Tenesmus
• Bloody stool
• Mucus in stool
• Intestine inflammation

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Home Diagnostic Testing

Home medical testing related to Dysentery:

• Colon & Rectal Cancer: Home Testing
  • Home Colorectal Cancer Tests
  • Home Fecal Occult Bleeding Tests

Medical Textbooks Online about Dysentery

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Dysentery?

• Misdiagnosis of Dysentery
• Underlying causes of Dysentery (possibly wrongly diagnosed)

Misdiagnosis and Dysentery

Chronic digestive conditions often misdiagnosed: When diagnosing chronic symptoms of the digestive tract, there are a variety of conditions that may be misdiagnosed. The best known, ...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 system contains a variety of ...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...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 I ate" (i.e. food...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 be over-diagnosed (it can, of course, also fail to be diagnosed with fatal...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 ...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, irritable...read more »

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Causes of Dysentery

• Digestive bacterial infection
• Digestive viral infection
• Scurvy

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More information about causes of Dysentery:

• Underlying causes of Dysentery
• Dysentery as a symptom

Treatments for Dysentery

• Bed rest
• Fluids
• See also treatments of amebic dysentery

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Reseach about Dysentery

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Clinical Trials for Dysentery

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Dysentery include:

• Phase 3 Study (Safety, Immunogenicity and Efficacy) of Improved Shigella Conjugate Vaccines in 1-4 Year Olds in Israel - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Shigella Vaccines
• A Study of the Absorption of GT267-004 in Patients With Clostridium Difficile-Associated Diarrhea - This study is not yet open for patient recruitment (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - tolevamer potassium-sodium (GT267-004)
• Healthy Adult Volunteer Study for Two Doses of a Shigella Vaccine - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Rifaximin, Loperamide and the Combination to Treat Travelers' Diarrhea - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Rifaximin and loperamide
• A Study of GT160-246 Versus Vancomycin in Patients With Clostridium Difficile-Associated Diarrhea - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - GT160-246

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Prevention of Dysentery

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

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

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Types of Dysentery

• Amebic dysentery - caused by bowel infection with ameba.
• Bacillary dysentery - digestive infection by Shigella bacteria.
• Balantidial dysentery - caused by Balantidium coli
• Bilharzial dysentery - worm infection by Schistosoma haematobium
• Ciliary dysentery

See full list of 22 Types of Dysentery

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Definitions of Dysentery:

An infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea - (Source - WordNet 2.1)