Rotovirus intestinal infection: symptoms and treatment

A rotovirus intestinal infection is one of the acute forms of an intestinal infection that has been caused by rotoviruses. People of any age can be prone to the disease. It easily flows in adults, but children under 2 years of age who are most vulnerable to the disease are most vulnerable.

How long is contagious? Intestinal flu is characterized by the short duration of the acute form( about 5 days).Today we will understand what the rotovirus intestinal infection is, what its symptoms are, and how to treat it.

It's important to know! After the patient has recovered, he develops immunity, which will prevent re-infection.

Causes of the disease

Immediately answer the question of how this infection is transmitted. Infect this disease you can from a sick person or healthy, which in turn is just a carrier. Rotovirus develops rather quickly in the mucous membrane of our body and leaves our body together with feces( after a certain period of time).Also, the infection can be transmitted through food.

It's important to know! In a large team to identify the carrier of this disease is fairly easy. Frequent diarrhea, non-digestion of food and severe dehydration of the body is a clear sign of intestinal flu.

Symptoms of

In children, the symptoms of the disease manifest themselves quite quickly. First of all your child will have a fever. Then, a couple of hours after the manifestation of the first sign, the baby will begin diarrhea and vomiting, which is very dehydrating and weakening the body. The child becomes sluggish and the state of health only worsens.

It's important to know! Do not let the body dehydrate. Give as much water as possible to the child.

Symptoms in adults:

1. Vomiting can be single or permanent. Usually this period is prolonged for 2 days.
2. Elevated body temperature. In general, the temperature of the body crosses the line 39 degrees Celsius. The temperature also lasts for several days.
3. Frequent diarrhea. Depending on what stage of the disease you have, the patient will need to visit the toilet at least 20 times a day. Sam feces are very watery and without any additional impurities( not digested food, blood and so on).

Incubation period

This period manifests itself within 16 hours after infection. Basically, the infection has a very acute onset and all of the above described signs manifest themselves( fever and so on).You will have a similar condition for the next 24 hours.

How to treat rotovirus intestinal infection

Treatment of intestinal infection is rather complicated, as the disease is cleverly disguised as usual poisoning and naturally, the methods of treatment are used quite different. Therefore, if you have these symptoms, you need to see a doctor, so that he will give you an accurate diagnosis. Some drugs can not be cured, but it's even possible to damage the body.

It's important to know! Method and method of treatment appoints only a doctor based on the characteristics of the patient's illness and body.

Medications

The most effective treatment is medication, since it can most quickly overcome the disease. Infection can be cured by the next group of medications.

Drugs for treatment:

• standard sorbents. For example, activated carbon or enterosgel;
• antiviral drugs - amiksin, groprinosin;
• is also very well assisted by rehydration solution, which is made from rehydron powder. Drink a similar solution every 15 minutes throughout the day;
• enzymes - Creon or pancreatin.

Pregnant women with treatment are not so unambiguous, as it must be prescribed very carefully, if they are to take antiviral drugs and other antibiotics, they can harm the child.

In addition, even physicians themselves recommend using not only traditional treatment, but also folk as an assistant.

Treatment with folk remedies

If the disease caught you off guard, and if you have only activated charcoal from medicines, then folk recipes can be used to treat and remove symptoms of infection. They will not allow dehydration of the body, remove the main symptoms and withdraw from it virtually all the accumulated slag.

Chamomile

One liter of boiled water should be filled with chamomile flowers, add a little lemon juice and a spoonful of sugar. The broth is infused over a period of half an hour, and then taken throughout the day.

Chamomile broth:

• we take chamomile flowers, fill them with boiling water;
• add a little honey and brew for 20 minutes.

Drink such a decoction is necessary throughout the day after each meal.

St. John's wort

For 200 ml of water is added a spoonful of St. John's wort and cinnamon. The broth should be covered and insisted for several hours. Then, several times it must be filtered and taken half a cup three times daily before meals.

It is important to know: is strictly contraindicated in children under 3 years of age.

Dried blueberries

With frequent diarrhea, both children and adults are strongly recommended dried dried bilberries. From its dry fruits, you can cook a delicious compote, which must be taken only after meals throughout the day.

It's important to know! Fresh blueberries have a completely opposite effect, as they cause loosening of the stool.

Nutrition

The main goal of the treatment is the restoration of the intestinal tract and the best way to do this is help a special diet. It is rather lean and consists of simple products, since the first time after the treatment, fatty and salty foods are strictly forbidden to the patient. In general, the diet should consist of chicken broth, cooked on the water porridge and boiled or steamed meat.

We suggest you take a look at the approximate diet during a diet. What you can eat:

1. The main part of any day is breakfast and you do not need to forget about it when dieting. At this time of the day, it is advisable to eat flakes and drink them with green tea without sugar( it removes slag from the body well).
2. For lunch you will need to eat boiled meat with rice. The dinner was satisfying, but very light.
3. For dinner, it is desirable not to eat much, and, perhaps, it is necessary to limit ourselves to lean yogurt and fruits.

It's important to know! If at night you suddenly want to eat, then limit yourself to a night snack. You can briefly deceive your stomach and drink a glass of water.

Rotovirus in newborns

Even infants are susceptible to this disease and in order that it does not get sick it is necessary to clearly monitor what it eats. You also need to constantly monitor for the slightest changes in his health. If it already happened that the baby was infected, then do not panic, and immediately go to the doctor for advice.

To restore the water balance in the body, you need to take a special solution, and to support the microflora in the body, the Hilak Forte, which suits even the smallest, will perfectly fit.

It is important to know: a drug is contraindicated for a child according to the type of activated charcoal or Mezima.

Prevention

How not to catch this disease:

• always eat only quality and fresh products;
• before consumption, all vegetables and fruits must be thoroughly washed.

Also today, a rather urgent issue has become vaccination in order to prevent intestinal flu. But the method is still untested, which means it is rather controversial, since there is no 100% guarantee that the vaccine will work. Therefore, it is better to follow the standard rules of personal hygiene. Ensure that all foods are well-processed.

Complications of

If you did not start treating the disease in time, writing it off for simple poisoning, then be ready for certain complications. Some of them:

1. Strong dehydration of the body( because of it the patient can even be hospitalized).
2. High risk of bacterial intestinal infection, as the human body is very weak.
3. In particularly severe cases, even death is possible.

As you can see, complications after rotovirus are quite serious and therefore it is always necessary to monitor your health.