Dysentery

 

When the intestines are infected and inflamed, it is called dysentery, resulting in diarrhea that may be bloody or mucous. Fever, nausea, and vomiting are among the other potential symptoms. Bacterial or parasitic diseases can result in disentery. Outbreaks of disentery are more frequent in nations with hot, humid weather and subpar sanitation. By using the proper measures when visiting high-risk locations and maintaining good cleanliness, a person may help prevent dysentery.

 

Introduction to Dysentery:

 

A digestive disorder called dysentery results in acute diarrhea with blood or mucus. Dysentery can be lethal if it is not adequately treated. Contact your doctor or another medical practitioner if you experience any disentery problems. The two primary manifestations of dysentery are as follows:

• Entamoeba histolytica is a parasite that triggers amoebic dysentery, also known as amoebiasis. Balantidium coli and strongyloidiasis are two additional intestinal parasites that can lead to amoebic disentery.
• Bacillary dysentery is brought on by an infection involving bacteria. Shigella, Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Escherichia coli (E. coli) are a few of the most prevalent bacteria responsible for bacillary disentery. The most typical form of disentery is bacillary disentery.

The most crucial step in preventing the spread of infection is hand washing. While you’re sick and experiencing symptoms, you can spread the infection to other individuals. To prevent spreading the disease to others, take the following actions:

• After using the toilet, properly wash your hands with soap and water. Learn more about proper handwashing techniques.
• Wait until you are clear of any symptoms for at least 48 hours before returning to work or school.
• Encourage young children to properly wash their hands.
• Until you are symptom-free for at least 48 hours, do not cook for others.
• Wait at least 48 hours after your last symptom to go swimming.
• As much as you can, avoid social situations until your symptoms have subsided.
• Use the hottest cycle on your washing machine to wash all of your soiled clothes, bedding, and towels.
• Following use, disinfect all faucets, sinks, toilet seats, toilet bowls, flush knobs, and other surfaces with a home disinfectant and detergent-hot water.
• Don’t engage in sexual activity until at least 48 hours have passed since your last symptom.

A stool culture will be requested if your healthcare professional believes you have dysentery. The sample will be sent to a lab by the doctor who treated you.  A sigmoidoscopy may also be suggested by your doctor. Your healthcare provider can use sigmoidoscopy to confirm the medical condition or rule out other potential reasons for your symptoms. Your doctor will perform a sigmoidoscopy to look inside the bottom (sigmoid) intestine and rectum using a specialized scope.

 

Causes and Symptoms:

 

Bacterial or parasitic diseases cause dysentery. The sickness is typically not brought on by viruses. Usually, these pathogens enter the body orally and go to the large intestine through contaminated food, water, oral contact with contaminated objects or hands, etc. The method of pathogenesis of each infection varies, but generally speaking, gut lining destruction results in inflammatory immunological reactions.

Increased temperatures in the body, challenging intestinal muscle cramps, edema from liquid leaking from intestine capillaries, and additional tissue damage due to immune cells in the body and chemicals called cytokines that circulate to fight germs can all result from this.

• Preparing food without washing their hands or with poor hygiene.
• Taking tainted water to drink
• Particularly involving the anus, sexual touch.

 

Complications could be:

• Nausea,
• Vomiting
• Fever of at least 100.4°F (38°C), which can be life-threatening if untreated, stomach cramps or pain

Poor cleanliness is typically to blame for the spread of dysentery. For instance, anything a disentery patient touches if they don’t wash their hands after using the toilet is at risk. Additionally, feces-contaminated food or water can spread the sickness to those who come into contact with it. Washing your hands thoroughly and maintaining good hygiene can help avoid dysentery and stop it from spreading.

 

Homeopathic Treatment for Dysentery:

 

A thorough treatment strategy that addresses chronic and acute forms of infection is part of the homeopathic treatment for dysentery. These dysentery medications function under the signs and symptoms that the illness causes.

• Aloe is a medication used to treat dysentery, which causes abundant mucus and jelly-like feces. After passing feces, the lower abdomen hurts. The stools have a tiny, brownish, semi-fluid texture that allows for easy movement.
• Asclepias Tuberosa is a medication used to treat disentery, which manifests as persistent tenesmus and soft, fetid feces. When stools are released, it feels like a torrent of fire is traveling through the belly.
• A medication called Mercurialis Corrosivus is used to treat disentery that has severe tenesmus but little blood and mucus.
• When there is tenesmus in the bladder and rectum, disentery is treated with Mercurius Solublis.
• Abdominal pain can be treated with Colchicum and Erigeron.
• Senecio Aureus is a medication used in conjunction with tenesmus to treat dysentery, characterized by thin, bloody feces. It is difficult to pass stools that are mixed with tough feces.
• Cantharis is a medication used to treat dysentery, which causes feces that feel like gut scrapings and burn when passed. Additionally present are the recti and bladder tenesmus.
• To treat disentery that results in bloody stools, medications like Cantharis and Senecio Aureus are used.
• Capsicum is a medication used to treat disentery, which causes bloody, mucus-filled feces. Tenesmus and excessive burning are also present.
• A medication called arsenic album is used to treat disentery when the patient exhibits acute prostration or is extremely weak and weary. The affected person is unable to tolerate the taste or smell of food. In addition to nausea and vomiting, there is food poisoning.
• Ipecac is a medication for dysentery that is also accompanied by persistent nausea that does not go away even after vomiting. The stools smell bad and have mucous in them.
• Erigeron is a medication used to treat diarrhea in patients who also have regular, excruciating pain in the umbilical area. Small, splattered with bloody stools.