clinical features
Last edited 04/2018
Majority of bacterial gastroenteritides will resolve spontaneously.
Presentations include:
- diarrhoea
- bloody - Campylobacter spp, Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) (EHEC OI57 Shiga toxin-producing – STEC)
- mucoid - Yersinia enterocolitica
- abdominal pain
- abdominal tenderness
- fever
- nausea
- vomiting
- malaise (1)
It is common for there to be an alteration in bowel habit for many months after bacterial gastroenteritis. At six months:
- a quarter will have a tendency to looser stool and faecal urgency
- one in 14 patients will have the classical features of the irritable bowel syndrome
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