Intestinal infection develops very quickly after entering the body of pathogenic microbes. After 6-48 hours, the person sharply deteriorates the well-being, the temperature rises, pain in the abdomen, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea appear.
First of all, the patient needs to give an adsorbing drug, which will begin to free the organism from toxins. In vomiting it is necessary to restore the water-salt balance. You can use pharmaceutical preparations for rehydration. The solution of the reguder needs to drink small sips every 10 minutes. Let's a patient a lot of fluid: boiled water, dried fruit or herbal tea.
Specialists advise those who suffer from an intestinal infection to refuse food for the first time. If there is no strength to endure hunger, then you can "reassure" the stomach with liquid porridge - oatmeal, rice or linen. Patients should be eliminated from the dietary dairy products, vegetables, fruits, black bread, legumes, meat and fish broths.
For the prevention of intestinal infections, it is necessary to observe simple rules: wash your hands before meals, in hot weather there are no desserts with cream, thoroughly wash vegetables and fruits, drink only boiled or bottled water.
And the most important thing is to fully cope with the disease, only the correct diagnosis and the correct treatment regimen will be helped. Contact your doctor for help.
Natalia Grishina, k. M. N., Gastroenterologist, nutritionist:
- By order of the Ministry of Health, any abdominal pain (and with intestinal infection, they will undoubtedly be) are an indication for an inspection by a surgeon. Especially in children.
First of all, you need to refer to the doctor - therapist or pediatrician. If there is clinical manifestations of the "acute abdomen", suspicion of a serious urgent situation - in other words, a sudden catastrophe (purulent process in the abdominal cavity, peritonitis), then immediately requires the hospitalization and intervention of the surgeon. Self-medication in this situation is very dangerous. Do not hope for folk recipes, diets, probiotics, antiseptics and other pharmacy means, if they are not prescribed by a doctor.
Pay attention to the prevention of intestinal infections. Take sorbents for the cottage or on vacation: Smekt, Polysorb, Enterosgel, Coal. With suspected intestinal infection, nothing else is recommended. Fruits, vegetables and berries need to be washed very carefully. Berries (except for raspberries and other watery berries) need to be mashed in water for 1 hour and then rinse every berry. The greens is washed under the jet of water, and then also soaked at an hour and a half in cold water, and then is washed again. Use a solution of manganese, special detergents for washing vegetables and fruits not necessarily - running water is enough.