Dysentery is an infectious disease caused by a group of pathogenic microbes and proceeds with pathological changes in the large intestine. Especially often adults and children suffer from dysentery in autumn and summer.
Dysentery - Dirty Hand Disease .Sources of infection may include fecal excrement, unsanitary conditions in the home and non-compliance with personal hygiene rules that contribute to the spread of the disease.
The disease occurs when in contact with sick people or bacilli carriers( people who have had dysentery who carry a dysentery bacillus).
In this article we will talk about the symptoms and treatment of dysentery in a child and an adult, but immediately with the caveat, this disease is treated in the infectious disease ward of a hospital in a hospital. Only with the permission of the infectious disease doctor, pediatrician and therapist, you can try to treat dysentery with folk remedies.
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Symptoms of
Dysentery can occur in acute and chronic form. Perhaps an asymptomatic bacteriocarrier.
Acute dysentery
Acute dysentery is divided into light, medium-heavy and severe forms due to its severity. The main symptoms of dysentery are symptoms of intoxication and colon lesions .
Symptoms of intoxication with mild disease are mild. The temperature can rise to 37.5 degrees or may remain normal. The patients feel very little. Pain in abdomen of short-term and moderate character. A chair up to ten times in one day, can be fecal with an admixture of mucus. Such patients usually do not go to the hospital. But they can be a source of infection for others.
When the medium-severe form, the symptoms of intoxication are more pronounced. Here, the body temperature rises to 38-39 degrees. The patient is concerned about headache, malaise, weakness, decreased appetite. Begin to appear abdominal pain cramping, with predominant localization in the left ileal region. There are tenesmus - false desires. A chair ten or more times a day. In the beginning, it has a fecal character, then it looks like a lump of mucus - a "rectal spitting".
From the side of the cardiovascular system: tachycardia( palpitation), lowering blood pressure and muffling heart sounds.
In cases of severe form of acute dysentery( rare), the sick person's health deteriorates more, the disease is very severe, the symptoms of intoxication are expressed. The onset of the disease is stormy: high temperature - up to 39 degrees, the temperature lasts from seven to 10 days. The patient suffers from headache, weakness, adynamia. Patients are hindered, sluggish. Sometimes there is a mental disorder, even before a coma. Pressure of the arterial is reduced. Skin pale with cyanotic shade, sometimes "marble".Tachycardia develops. Pain in the abdomen is strong, cramping, permanent tenesmus. The chair is frequent, without counting, slimy with veins of blood.
Chronic dysentery
Chronic dysentery is most often the outcome of an acute form. This happens with improper treatment or lack of it. Dysentery, lasting more than three months, can be considered chronic. It can occur in 2 variants: recurrent and continuous.
Recurring
The recurrent form of chronic dysentery is characterized by the fact that two to three months after the acute dysentery, the disease recurs and develops again. The periods of exacerbation alternate with periods of seemingly complete clinical well-being. Patient's state of health here is not particularly disturbed, body temperature is normal or slightly increases. Stool frequency is three to five times a day, there is no tenesmus( false urges), rarely an admixture of blood in the stool. Pain in the abdomen is sharp and cramped, more often associated with walking, changing the position of the body and shaking.
In patients with the diagnosis of "Dysentery", the symptoms of the psychoemotional sphere and the nervous system are: irritability, tearfulness, emotional instability, sweating, weakness, sleep disorder. During the period of remission, the condition is relatively satisfactory, but functional intestinal insufficiency persists: intolerance to spices and milk;poorly cooked food and overeating causes an unstable stool. Discomfort in the abdomen.
Continuous
The continuous form of chronic dysentery is the constant progression of the disease and the deterioration of the patient's condition. Intestinal dysfunction persists for many years. Anemia, exhaustion, signs of hypovitaminosis develop. This form is more common in elderly and senile patients with concomitant pathologies.
Treatment of dysentery in adults and children with folk remedies
Traditional medicine advises before treatment to clear the stomach with laxatives, and then take antiseptic medications that calm the intestines.
You can not drink anything cold, as this aggravates the process. In the acute period of the disease, you can eat mucous soups from barley, rice, drink tea, protein water( raw egg whites are well spread out with boiled water and drink in small sips).
Yarrow .1 teaspoon of herbs for 300 ml of boiling water. Drink like tea with sugar.
Chicken stomach( film).Stretch the stomach gently, separate from meat. Wash it inside, cover with boiling water and put it on a clean paper. It will dry in 1-2 days. With any diarrhea( and dysentery as well), rinse the stomach film into powder and take 1 g( at the tip of the knife) 3-4 times a day. Stops even bloody diarrhea.
Strong green tea drink 4-5 times a day for 1 glass.
Rice broth or rice porridge , welded on the water hardboiled without salt, well helps with diarrhea for adults and children.
Treatment of curd .Within 1-3 days, eat only fresh cottage cheese and drink whey.
Potato starch. 1 teaspoon of starch dilute in 100 g of cold boiled water and drink in one go. Drink 2-3 times a day. Acts quickly and without fail.
To reduce pain, you can make an enema from flaxseed ( 1 tablespoon per cup of boiling water, boil 10-12 minutes).Enclose clyster slowly and very deeply.
Blood spoon drug ( root).1 tablespoon chopped root pour a glass of boiling water. Boil for 15 minutes on low heat, strain. Take 4-6 times a day for 1 tablespoon. Good anti-inflammatory, bactericidal and astringent.
Rowan. Fresh fruits and juice. Drink juice 3-4 times a day for one-fourth of a glass half an hour before meals. Berries eat 70-100 g 3 times a day to achieve the effect.
Wild bird cherry. Use a decoction of fruit( a tablespoon on a glass of boiling water, boil for 5 minutes, insist 1 hour, strain).Take one fourth of the glass 3-4 times a day.
Broth of roots of horse sorrel .1 tablespoon sorrel, pour 300 ml of boiling water and boil for 15 minutes on low heat. Insist 4 hours. Strain. Drink 1 tablespoon 4 times a day before meals.
Oak Oak bark .1 tablespoon chopped bark pour 2 cups of cold boiled water, insist 12 hours in a dark place, strain. Drink sips throughout the day.
Plantain large. Infusion of seeds : chop the seeds and add one teaspoon of boiling water. Insist 4 hours, strain. Take 200 ml in three divided doses.
Seed powder psyllium drink 1 g three times a day with dysentery and diarrhea.
Highlander snake( cancer cervical). Root broth: 20 g of ground root per 500 ml of water. Boil 20 minutes, infuse for 1 hour. Take 1 tablespoon every 3 hours. Infusions and decoctions also help babies with dyspepsia.
Decoction of ash bark. The young bark or the ends of the aspen branches are used.500 grams of bark pour a liter of boiling water and half-heartedly with the lid closed. Take an extract of 30 g 3 times a day( give the children 10 grams each).The remedy is strong. Even severe dysentery passes for several days.
Infusion of root or bark of pomegranate.1 a teaspoon of bark pour a glass of boiling water, infuse for 2 hours. Drink gradually in small sips. During the day you should drink 2 glasses.
Oat flakes. Use for inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract( 100 g of oat flakes pour 1 liter of cold water, insist 4 hours, then cook until thick).
Infusion of honeysuckle flowers. 10 g of dried flowers brew 200 ml of boiling water, press for 1 hour, squeeze and drink thick infusion in one step. Drink 3-5 times until complete recovery.
Blueberries, blackberries are used in the treatment of dysentery in the form of berries( 20-30 pieces per reception 3-4 times a day) or infusion( a tablespoon of dry leaves insist in a glass of boiling water for 30 minutes).Drink like tea.
Drugs: drugs, antibiotics, vitamins
- Sulfonamide preparations: Ethazole, Sulfadimethoxin, Norsulfazole, Phtazine, Madribon.
- Preparations of the nitrofuran series: Furazolidone, Furazonal( 0.1 4 times a day).
- Antibiotics: Tetracycline, Biomycin, Terramycin( 0.2-0.3 4 times daily), Levomycetin( 0.5 4 times a day).
- Vitaminotherapy( B1, C).In severe cases, blood transfusion, plasma.
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Symptoms of dysentery: fever, navel pain, diarrhea and vomiting
The first symptom of of dysentery becomes fever. As a rule, it is observed in both mild and complicated forms of the disease. So, the patient begins to feel the heat, and the body temperature rises sharply. However, the temperature index depends on the form of dysentery. So, with a light increase stops at thirty-eight degrees. In a more neglected case, it can go and about forty degrees, and then, unfortunately, and higher. It is worth noting that the standard and long known to all antipyretics simply can not help in the described situation, since the nature of their appearance is slightly non-standard.
The second symptom of dysentery is pain in the navel area. However, one should not think that pain is limited to this only. So, discomfort increases gradually and becomes stronger the painful stimulus penetrates into the human body. As a rule, pains are intensified before emptying the intestines, which leads to a complicated bowel movement.
The third symptom of dysentery is vomiting and frequent urge to go to the toilet. As a rule, the patient becomes worse with every hour. So, the regular feeling of nausea increasingly develops into incessant vomiting. However, sometimes the symptom described is limited solely to the fact that a person can spend several hours a day in the toilet. It is important to note that the chair is liquid.
Source: Allega G.N. Official and traditional medicine. The most detailed encyclopedia.- Moscow: Izd-vo Eksmo, 2012.