Salmonellosis: symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
Salmonellosis: symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
Salmonellosis is an infectious disease withvarious clinical symptoms. An asymptomatic clinical form is possible when a person is a carrier and in the blood they detect salmonella. But most often the digestive organs are affected, and the disease takes a severe septic form.
Salmonellosis symptoms
The most common form of salmonella,which occurs in most patients - gastrointestinal. The disease always takes place in an acute form. The body temperature immediately rises to 40 degrees, there is chills, general weakness, intoxication. He suffers from severe pain in his stomach, nausea, diarrhea. The body quickly dehydrates.
The typhoid-like form of salmonella is symptomatic not different from typhoid fever. Only on the basis of allocation of a blood culture of the originator of an infection it is possible to put the exact diagnosis.
The septic form of salmonellosis proceedsespecially acute. The main symptoms: severe toxicosis, fever, lasting for several weeks, the development of secondary purulent foci of inflammation in the musculoskeletal system.
Acute dysentery causes a colitis form of salmonellosis.
Salmonellosis diagnosis
The main clinical manifestations of salmonellosisare similar to other diseases. Therefore, an infectious disease specialist can only give an accurate diagnosis on the basis of the results of laboratory tests and detection of the pathogen. After isolating the blood culture, the doctor makes the correct diagnosis.
Salmonellosis treatment
Treatment of all forms of salmonellosis is carried out inconditions of the hospital. Parenterally, polyionic solutions are administered, haemodesis is administered, hydrocortisone or prednisolone is administered. The patient is discharged from the hospital only after full recovery. In 1% of patients, lifelong bacteriocarrier is formed.
