Prevention of acute intestinal infections in children
17.10.2016 | Heading: Information
Acute intestinal infections (OKI)- polyetiological group of infectious diseases, accompanied by impaired motility of the gastrointestinal tract with the development of diarrhea, intoxication, and in some cases – dehydration.
Depending on the etiology and pathogenesis, AEI are divided into invasive intestinal infections., in which the causative agents of the disease are Shigella, salmonella, enteroinvasive escherichia, campylobacter; and secretory - the cause of the disease are rotaviruses, adenoviruses, astroviruses, as well as bacteria (enterotoxigenic and enteropathogenic escherichia) and parasites (cryptosporidia, isospores, ballantidia, microsporidia.
The source of infection in AII is a sick person or carriers. The most common source is lung disease, erased and asymptomatic forms of infection. The main transmission mechanism is fecal-oral, food, water and contact household, less often - by air-dust. Moreover, if food and water ways are more important in bacterial infections, then with viral diarrhea, water and contact. Viruses, as known, cannot reproduce on food and are transmitted “from a living person to a living person”. For viral intestinal infections, the cold season is more characteristic., and bacterial are more common in summer-autumn with a peak, falling on August-September. Read completely »
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