In the people, this disease is called "intestinalflu ". At first, its symptoms resemble the common cold: cough, runny nose, body temperature rises. Then rotavirus intestinal infection causes vomiting and diarrhea in a patient. Most children suffer from this ailment due to weak immunity.
Возбудителем заболевания является вирус, infecting the intestines. In the first year of life, infants may have several times the disease of this infectious disease, after which they develop immunity to the disease. Often, rotavirus intestinal infection enters the body and an adult. As a rule, this occurs upon contact with a sick child. In adults, the course of the disease is more mild, and the symptoms, with proper treatment, quickly disappear. From November to May, the likelihood of contracting a disease, the name of which is “rotavirus enteric infection,” will increase significantly. The peculiarity of this disease is that the pathogen, entering the intestines of a healthy person, affects the gastric mucosa. As a result, gastroenteritis occurs, the process of food digestion is disturbed, diarrhea appears, leading to dehydration.
Ways to spread
Rotoviral intestinal infection is verycontagious disease. The main route of transmission of the pathogenic bacteria is oral-fecal. Kids can "get" the virus through dirty hands. The importance of hygiene before eating and after using the toilet should be explained to the child.
Rotavirus infection. Symptoms
The incubation period of this disease maylast a few days. The first sign of illness is vomiting, which is repeated. In addition, there is an increase in temperature, diarrhea and general intoxication of the sick body. With this disease, as a rule, dark-colored urine is secreted, and the chair, on the contrary, is light and frothy with a strong odor. Less common in children is inflammation of the upper respiratory tract mucosa.
Symptoms of the disease in adults
In older persons, this disease occurs with moreblurred symptoms, provoking upset stomach, loss of appetite, nausea. As a rule, rotavirus infection causes muscle weakness, lethargy, weakness, headache, temperature within 37.7 degrees. Often there is swelling of the throat, a white bloom on the tongue, abdominal pain, watery stools, vomiting.
How to avoid rotavirus infection?
To prevent the disease are availablespecial vaccines that are taken orally. To reduce the likelihood of infection, you should follow the basic rules of hygiene. You need to wash your hands regularly, do not drink raw water, wash vegetables and fruits. If a patient appears in the family, it is necessary to isolate him from the rest, providing individual hygiene products and necessary items.
