Misdiagnosis of Infection

Misdiagnosis and Infection

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.

Severe asthma is a medical emergency: Severe asthma is a life threatening condition that is resistant to standard treatment and requires intensive medication to overcome the obstruction to the air passages. Studies suggest that asthma is often underdiagnosed. In elderly patients, diseases such as bronchitis or emphysema are relatively common. Proper diagnosis in these patients can be further complicated by the difficulty some older people have performing pulmonary function tests. However, it is important to determine the extent of reversibility of the airflow obstruction. In children younger than age 5, the most common cause of asthmatic symptoms is a viral upper respiratory tract infection.

Varied forms of scabies: Scabies is a highly contagious, pruritic dermatosis caused by infestation with the Sarcoptes scabei mite. Scabies can present in many different forms and lead to misdiagnosis. Some of the conditions that it can be misdiagnosed as include atopic dermatitis, dermatitis herpetiformis and other insect infestations. Burrows which are typical for scabies though not seen in cases of atopic dermatitis the linear arrangement of the lesions can lead to confusion..

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