Children's salmonelles

What are the causes of salmonellosis in children? What are the symptoms of salmonellosis in children? How to diagnose, treatment and prevention of salmonellosis in children? Answers to these questions you will find in the article.

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Salmonellosis - acute intestinal infection, striking mainly subtle intestines. Causative agent
is bacterium from Salmonella. The child can get infected from
Patient Man, livestock, cats, dogs, birds.
Bacteriamers may be people associated with food production
Products. The leading path of transmission of infection - food. More often Salmonella
Enters the body with meat products (especially semi-finished products),
Milk, vegetables (salads, winegreets). With a household path
Translation factors may be toys, care objects
staff.

Enrolled
With food, live bacteria are destroyed in the stomach and in the upper departments
Fine intestine. There is a large number of toxins that
Determine the clinical picture at the beginning of the disease. Part of bacteria B
The thin intestine is multiplied and can be held in blood. It depends on the
state of the immune system of the body.

Symptoms of salmonellosis in children

Incubation
The period is from several hours to 5 days. With massive
Food Seamation The disease proceeds with the pattern of food intoxication.
There is an increase in temperature, headache appears, weakness.
Then develop signs of damage to the gastrointestinal tract:
Multiple vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea. Stomach moderately swap, chair
Reminds rice decoction. The child is sharpened by the features of the face, leather
Pale with earthly tint, limbs are cold, falls against arterial
pressure. Liver and spleen may increase.

Septic form
observed in children of the breast and is characterized by severe,
Long flow. The chair has features: there is a significant
the number of mucus, greenery, blood, by type it resembles color «Bolotnaya
Tina» or «frog caviar». The temperature lasts longer
time than in older children. Erased form more often observed
Older children. The general condition is not enough. Temperature ne
Rises above 38°C, chair only slightly discharge. Most patients
Symptoms of the disease disappear after 2 weeks.

Diagnosis and treatment of salmonellosis in children

The diagnosis is set
With increasing temperature, abdominal pains, liquid stool. Decisive
The value is a study determining the pathogen in the vomit,
Kale, blood, washing water stomach. Differential follows with dysentery, food toxicoinfections caused by other microorganisms, meningitis.

IN
An acute period is assigned a water-tea pause for 6-12 hours. In it
Time The child gets a daily volume of fluid. From antibacterial
Preferably Recommend Furazolidon and Salmonellic Bacteriophage. Early children use antibiotics. For normalization of intestinal flora, quibacterin, lactobacterin, bificol and t.D.