One of the most common ailments of the gastrointestinal tract is enterocolitis. When it is inflamed at the same time and thin (enteritis) and thick (colitis) gut. This disease can be caused by various causes and proceeds in acute or chronic form. That is why enterocolitis has different symptoms.
Signs of acute enteritis
Acute enterocolitis is mainly manifested against bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases. Also, the acute form of this ailment can develop as a result of food poisoning, due to the consumption of large amounts of alcohol, too cold or rough food, idiosyncrasy to certain food substances or medicines.
The disease always begins acutely. The first symptoms of acute enterocolitis include:
- general malaise;
- diarrhea (stool more than 5 times a day);
- cramping pain around the navel (can occur only before defecation).
Just a few hours after the appearance of enterocolitis of the intestine, the symptoms that appeared first are exacerbated and new ones appear:
- decreased appetite;
- the patient is bothered by salivation, nausea.
Sometimes with enterocolitis may cause vomiting . This disease in the vomit contains food remains, and with often repeated vomiting, they can even contain mucus with an admixture of bile.
With the development of the disease in the abdomen, there is a sensation of fluid transfusion and rumbling, which are intensified before defecation. Cal is also changing. If at first it is mushy, then in time it becomes liquid, yellowish or yellow-green in color, offensive.
If a patient has staphylococcal enterocolitis, the symptoms of the disease are frequent defecations with impurities in the feces (mucus, undigested muscle fibers, starch grains, fatty acid crystals, fat droplets).
When all these signs appear, does the patient not seek medical help? His condition will be aggravated: pallor, dry lips, belly swelling. In severe cases, soreness will spread throughout the abdomen, there will be cramps in the limbs and pain in the muscles.
Acute enterocolitis can cause complications in the patient's body:
- cystitis ;
- neuritis;
- hepatitis;
- cholecystitis;
- angiocholite.
Also, the disease can be weft into a chronic form.
Signs of chronic enterocolitis
The primary symptoms of chronic enterocolitis are similar to the acute form of the disease. Patients complain about:
- nausea;
- diarrhea (mainly, it appears early in the morning or after a meal);
- pain and discomfort in the navel;
- dizziness;
- general weakness;
- transfusion and rumbling in the abdomen.
If a patient has chronic ulcerative enterocolitis, intestinal spasms and cramping pains that join the entire stomach join the primary symptoms. There may be hypotension, bradycardia, and bleeding in the rectum.
Signs of complicated enterocolitis
Complicated enterocolitis initially develops usually: constipation appears, flatulence is troubling, the abdomen is swollen. But along with these
Also, with such a course of inflammation, a psycho-vegetative syndrome may appear: the patient will feel weakness, headaches, sleep badly, he becomes irritable.
If pseudomembranous enterocolitis acquires a chronic form, the diseased have a complete lack of appetite, which leads to a breakdown in mineral and protein metabolism in the body.