Viral diarrhea is one of the infectious diseases that cause damage to the stomach and intestines. To avoid such diseases, you need to carefully monitor your health and try to prevent the entry into the body of infections that are the causative agents of such diseases.
Insufficient food processing and poor food quality equally affect the state of the intestines and can provoke the development of food disorders, as well as the occurrence of various inflammations, including viral diarrhea.
The causes of viral diarrhea
This disease is provoked by various infections, and the presence of viral diarrhea is noted in both children and adults. Such a disease is quite common, so a lot of effort is daily applied to treat diarrhea and destroy the viruses that caused it.
Infection can be transmitted directly in the home, not only through food, but also through water. Mostly this infection has a fecal-oral route of transmission. Even with the condition that the patient will be in the hospital, this does not save him from the risk of contracting this disease, since the infection is carried by the staff.
Viral diarrhea can occur not only in adults. Diarrhea can occur in a child in the first year of life. It can be observed not only diarrhea, but also attacks of vomiting, nausea, fever.
Getting into the body, the infection contributes to the disruption of the natural work of the intestine, because of this, it accumulates a large amount of fluid, diarrhea from the virus increases.
Symptoms of viral diarrhea
The presence of certain signs depends on the age of the patient and on what kind of virus caused diarrhea. The incubation period can last as long as 10 hours, and seven days - it all depends on the infection itself.
Viral diarrhea in a child often begins in an acute form and is often accompanied by fever and nausea. There are signs of intoxication of the body. Also, the onset of the disease can begin with vomiting, and after each meal. It is necessary to carefully approach the diet during this period, since even drinking can provoke vomiting, which systematically worsens the condition.
At the age of up to two years, children predominantly suffer from mild diarrhea. In this case, the temperature rise is very rare. But still there are severe pains in the abdomen. Stool - about 10 times during the day, impurities are not observed. With such manifestations, the condition can be normalized after 2-3 days.
Also among the symptoms of viral diarrhea may be cold symptoms, such as a runny nose, cough. In addition, there is a loose stool and vomiting, an elevated body temperature that can be held for three days.
In a child under the age of two, viral diarrhea is much more complicated. Intestinal infection can take a severe form. In this case, children are marked by weakness and weakness of the whole body, the temperature is very high, there is an intoxication of the body. Frequent attacks caused by a virus of diarrhea and vomiting provoke the development of dehydration of the body, which requires immediate treatment.
Symptoms of viral diarrhea in adults can sometimes be more pronounced, but in general, they are similar to those that occur in children.
Patients have diarrhea attacks about 10 times a day. Stools are watery. If the form of the disease is mild, then the presence of blood and mucus is not observed. When defecating, there may be pain in the abdomen. If there are complications of the disease, then there may be an increase in lymph nodes, as well as of the liver.
To prevent the severe form of viral diarrhea, it is recommended that when the first signs of the disease appear, take action and consult a qualified specialist for help.
Treatment of viral diarrhea
At home, you can treat this disease only if it is of an easy nature. The first thing you need to do is fill the lack of fluid, the loss of which during the illness very much depletes the body. For this, water-salt solutions are used, which help normalize the functioning of the intestine. If dehydration progresses, contributing to the deterioration of the patient's well-being, he should be hospitalized.
Food is very important, it can also have a beneficial effect on the body. First of all, foods that enhance peristalsis are excluded from the diet. Fermentation in the intestines strengthens fats, so it's worth limiting the patient to eating foods containing them. In addition, fats can only strengthen diarrhea and aggravate intoxication.
With viral diarrhea, antibiotics should not be used, as they contribute to diarrhea and may prolong the duration of the disease.