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Diseases » Nosocomial infections » Misdiagnosis

Misdiagnosis of Nosocomial infections

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Common Misdiagnoses and Nosocomial infections

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 in the gut. This leads to "digestive imbalance" where there are too few remaining "good" bacteria in the digestive system. The treatment is typically to use "probiotics", such as by eating yoghurt cultures containing more of the good bacteria. See digestive imbalance and probiotics.

Hidradenitis suppurativa: Hidradenitis suppurativa is an infection of the apocrine glands which occurs in the axillae, external genitalia, inguinal and perianal regions. It usually occurs in adolescents and the causative organisms are staphylococci or gram negative organisms. The patient may present with multiple small but painful abscesses with excessive itching and redness. The condition must be differentiated from other conditions such as actinomycosis, carbuncle (history of diabetes must be asked) and tuberculosis. Antibiotics alone may not be helpful and incision and drainage of the abscesses is required with excision of the affected area.

General Misdiagnosis Articles

Read these general articles with an overview of misdiagnosis issues.

About misdiagnosis:

When checking for a misdiagnosis of Nosocomial infections or confirming a diagnosis of Nosocomial infections, it is useful to consider what other medical conditions might be possible misdiagnoses or other alternative conditions relevant to diagnosis. These alternate diagnoses of Nosocomial infections may already have been considered by your doctor or may need to be considered as possible alternative diagnoses or candidates for misdiagnosis of Nosocomial infections. For a general overview of misdiagnosis issues for all diseases, see Overview of Misdiagnosis.