Presentation
Amoebiasis can present with no, mild, or severe symptoms. Symptoms may include abdominal pain, mild diarrhoea, bloody diarrhea or severe colitis with tissue death and perforation. This last complication may cause peritonitis. [icd.codes]
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Patients younger than 1 month present with irritability, lethargy, vomiting, lack of appetite, and seizures. Those older than 4 months have neck rigidity, tense fontanels, and fever. [emedicine.medscape.com]
Presentation The incubation period may be as short as seven days and tissue invasion mostly occurs during first four months of infection. [cmc.ph]
Entire Body System
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Malaise
The presentation ranges from low-grade fever with abdominal tenderness, weakness, malaise, and anorexia to hypoxemia and hypotension. The infection is usually polymicrobial with E coli and other gram-negative bacilli and anaerobes. [emedicine.medscape.com]
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Pathologist
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Burning Pain
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Gastrointestinal
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Failure to Thrive
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Acute bacterial meningitis Newborns with E coli meningitis present with fever and failure to thrive or abnormal neurologic signs. Other findings in neonates include jaundice, decreased feeding, periods of apnea, and listlessness. [emedicine.medscape.com]
Psychiatrical
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Suggestibility
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Other Self-Care Suggestions Drink plenty of fluids and replenish electrolytes, including sodium and potassium. Recharge, Gatorade, Emergen-C, and electrolyte solutions available from pharmacies are useful. [4remedy.com]
Entamoeba dispar, another species, has been thought in the past to be non-pathological but in vitro and in vivo experiments suggest it is capable of causing liver damage. [cmc.ph]
Treatment
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Treatment is with antibiotics. [icdlist.com]
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Metronidazole is the first choice for treatment of acute invasive amoebic dysentery. Tinidazole is also effective. Treatment with metronidazole or tinidazole is followed by a 10-day course of diloxanide furoate to destroy any amoebae in the gut. [cmc.ph]
Prognosis
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Prognosis In uncomplicated disease, the mortality rate is less than 1% but is much higher in complicated severe disease – eg, fulminant amoebic colitis, chest involvement or cerebral amoebiasis. [cmc.ph]
Etiology
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Epidemiology
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Epidemiology E. histolytica infects approximately 50 million people worldwide, of which approximately 100,000 die annually. It is the third most common cause of death (after schistosomiasis and malaria) from parasitic infections. [cmc.ph]
Prevention
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Prevention is especially important. There are no vaccines for parasitic diseases. Some medicines are available to treat parasitic infections. [icdlist.com]
Prevention Successful control of amoebiasis depends on prevention of infection through adequate sanitation, safe food and water and good personal hygiene of the population. [cmc.ph]