Clostridium Difficile Clostridium Difficile, often called C. difficile or C. diff, is a bacterium that can cause Symptoms ranging from diarrhea to life - threatening inflammation of the colon. Illness from C. difficile most commonly affects older adults in hospitals or in long term care facilities and typically occurs after use of antibiotic medications. In recent years, C. difficile infections have become more frequent, more severe and more difficult to treat. Each year, tens of thousands of people in the United States get sick from C. difficile, including some otherwise healthy people who aren’t hospitalized or taking antibiotics.
Inhaled anthrax spores produce nonspecific symptoms after about 1- to 5-day incubation period. Symptoms are mild fever, myalgia, nonproductive cough, headache and malaise, these all lead to high fever, prostration, and severe respiratory distress with cyanosis, stridor, and pleural effusion within 3 to 5 days. It can be fatal if it remains untreated within 24 hours of the acute
What are the signs and symptoms? • Diarrhoea with bloody stools • Headaches, nausea and vomiting • Symptoms normally persist for about a week • For the very young, old or those already unwell, E-coli O157 may be more severe and complications such as renal failure can occur. How do people stop it spreading? • Wash hands thoroughly after going to the toilet and before preparing meals or eating. • Young children with the infection should have their hands washed for them or be supervised.
Tremulousness & Hallucinations This self-limited condition occurs within 2 days after cessation of drinking and is characterized by tremulousness, agitation, anorexia, nausea, insomnia, tachycardia, and hypertension. Confusion, if present, is mild. Illusions and hallucinations, usually visual, occur in about 25% of patients. Treatment with diazepam, 5–20 mg, or chlordiazepoxide, 25–50 mg, orally every 4 hours, will terminate the syndrome and prevent more serious consequences of withdrawal. 2.
The flu begins abruptly, causing high fevers, generally 102 -106F, headache, tiredness, dry cough, sore throat, muscle aches and stiffness, chills, fatigue, malaise, sweating, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, lack of appetite, and worsening of other illnesses such as heart failure or asthma. The fever will typically last up to five days. General body symptoms such as body aches, nausea, vomiting, and sweating should decrease at about the third day and respiratory symptoms should then begin to set in. The flu virus can emerge anywhere in the respiratory system, producing the indications of a cold, croup, sore throat, bronchitis, ear infections, or pneumonia, these symptoms should start to diminish at around four to seven days. The tiredness and coughing can lasts for weeks after the flu is
Parasites survive by feeding from its host. 1.2 Bacteria, common illnesses caused by bacteria are MRSA, Salmonella, Legionnaires disease, food poisoning, Pneumonia and Bronchitis. Viruses, common viruses are A common cold, measles, chicken pox and HIV. Fungi, common fungi are, Athletes foot, Ringworm and yeast infection. Parasites, common parasites are, Malaria and worms.
If the symptoms are controlled, your dose may decrease. After your symptoms have been controlled for 3 months, your doctor may slowly decrease your dose and then stop treating you with this
Giardiasis, an illness that affects the digestive tract, is caused by a microscopic parasite called Giardia lamblia. (1) The parasite attaches itself to the lining of the small intestines in humans, where it sabotages the body's absorption of fats and carbohydrates from digested foods. Giardia is one of the chief causes of diarrhea in the United States, and is transmitted through contaminated water. (3) It can survive the normal amounts of chlorine used to purify community water resevoirs, and can live for more than 2 months in cold water. Young kids are three times more likely to have giardiasis than adults, which leads some experts to believe that our bodies gradually develop some form of immunity to the parasite as we grow older.
You must be immunized within one week to four months prior to exposure for the vaccine to be effective. The vaccine is composed of inactivated organisms from several virus strains with scientist attempt to include the most recent mutation. Vaccines are typically 67-92 percent effective. Although most people recover fully from the flu, some develop serious complications, including life threatening conditions such as pneumonia. About 20,000 people in the United States die from flu complications each year and thousands more need to be hospitalized prior to recovery.
The number of children who have them has more than tripled in the last twenty years. There are many different symptoms of an allergic reaction to a food. The skin, the gastrointestinal tract, the respiratory tract, and in severe cases the cardiovascular tract can also be affected. The reactions vary from person to person and can be very mild or very severe. The reaction could occur anytime from only a few minutes after eating the food to up to several hours later.