{"id":45,"date":"2016-11-28T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/?p=45"},"modified":"2024-04-26T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T12:16:38","slug":"bloody-diarrhea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/bloody-diarrhea\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloody Diarrhea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In developing countries blood stained watery stools are often noted in children between the age of 6 months to 5 years. It is also a frequent ailment in the elderly persons and people living in crowded places with poor sanitary conditions.<br \/>\nThis type of diarrhea is caused by a highly contagious bacteria through faeco-oral route. Handling food, milk or water without washing the hands with soap and eating food made from improperly washed vegetables are the source.<br \/>\nThe individual infected has <strong>bloody diarrhea<\/strong>, abdominal cramps, fever, joint pains, urge to pass stools and occasionally vomiting. There is dehydration also.<br \/>\nIt is a self-limiting type of food poisoning which lasts from 3 \u2013 7 days in healthy people. But in small children, elderly persons having long-term illness like diabetes mellitus, renal disease and also in immune- compromised people &#8211; certain complications develop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-46\" src=\"http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Bloody-Diarrhea-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"Bloody Diarrhea \" width=\"700\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Bloody-Diarrhea-1024x536.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Bloody-Diarrhea-300x157.jpg 300w, http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Bloody-Diarrhea-768x402.jpg 768w, http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Bloody-Diarrhea-1140x596.jpg 1140w, http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Bloody-Diarrhea-552x289.jpg 552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Complications from this diarrhea are:<\/strong><br \/>\nSudden onset of haemolysis (red blood cells breaking down in the blood stream), renal failure (kidney shutdown with scanty urine output) and bleeding due to deranged blood clotting develop and this is a syndrome which needs immediate medical attention.<br \/>\nBacteremia \u2013 bloodstream is invaded by the infecting bacteria sometimes causing shock<br \/>\nSeizures and incoherence in children.<br \/>\n<strong>Investigations for suspected food poisoning cases:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Complete Blood Picture<br \/>\n2. Stool &#8211; complete examination<br \/>\n3. Stool culture and sensitivity<br \/>\n4. S. Electrolytes<br \/>\n5. S. Creatinine<br \/>\n6. Complete Urine Examination<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">In developing countries blood stained watery stools are often noted in children between the age of 6 months to 5&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[38,33,37,35,36,34,21],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infections","tag-acute-bloody-diarrhea","tag-bloody-diarrhea","tag-bloody-diarrhea-causes","tag-bloody-diarrhea-symptoms","tag-bloody-diarrhea-treatments","tag-bloody-stool","tag-children","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/avignadiagnostics.com\/creating-clarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}