Viral digestive infections
Viral digestive infections: Introduction
Conditions involving the digestive system that are caused by a virus. Viral gastroenteritis and infectious diarrhea are examples of common viral digestive infections. Viral gastroenteritis is particularly common, with 1 in 3 people contracting the disease and 1,300 of these dying each year in the US.
Symptoms of Viral digestive infections
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Medical Books Excerpts
- Vomiting
- "In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms" (2007)
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- Vomiting
- "Handbook of Signs & Symptoms (Third Edition)" (2006)
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- Vomiting
- "Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition)" (2006)
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- Nausea and Vomiting
- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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- Vomiting
- "Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series" (2007)
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- Vomiting
- "Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses" (2007)
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- Vomiting
- "Nursing: Interpreting Signs and Symptoms" (2007)
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Misdiagnosis and Viral digestive infections
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, irritable bowel syndrome, is over-diagnosed, whereas...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 in the gut.
This...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 poisoning).
In fact...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,...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...read more »
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