1. For the first lesson you have to learn 3 topics:
"Polio. Enterovirus infection“
"Viral hepatitis A, B, C"
" Infectious diseases of elementary tract (shigellosis, salmonellosis) ".
To prepare for classes necessary for e-book in the library: Yu. P. Kharchenko, A. M. Mikhailova, S. O. Kramarev, I. V. Yurchenko, G. A. Shapovalova, A. I. Savchuk INFECTIOUS DISEASES in CHILDREN. - Odessa: 2008.
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2. Acute intestinal infection in children: clinical manifestations
Sumy State University
Lecturer
Bynda Tatyana P.

3. AIDs (acute intestinal diseases)
AIDs take one of the leading places in infectious pathology of childhood, being responsible for more than 50% of all the registered diseases in children.
According to WHO (World Health Organization), more than 1 milliard diarrheas are registered every year in the world, children under 5  accounting for 60-70% of them; about 3 million preschool children die.

4. Acute intestinal diseases
AIDs are acute infectious diseases caused by specific agents (bacteria, protozoa, and viruses) and characterized by invasive, secretory and osmotic mechanisms of impairment of gastrointestinal tract.
It is manifested by local inflammatory process and general intoxication with dysfunction of central and vegetative nervous system, microcirculation and metabolism.

5. Epidemiology The source of infection are
patients with AIDs and bacillicarriers

6. Epidemiology Mechanism of transmission is fecal-oral.
The factors of transmission are hands, foodstuffs, water and flies.
According to the factor of transmission, there are different ways of contagion:
by direct contact,
through food and water.

7. General clinical manifestations of AIDs
The main clinical syndromes characteristic of AIDs are
syndromes of involvement of gastrointestinal tract,
toxicosis.

8. The main syndromes of involvement of gastrointestinal tract
Gastritis as an isolated impairment of GIS occurs more often in older children
There is
Pain and constant heavy feeling in the epigastric region;
Nausea and vomiting;
The tongue is coated.

9. The main syndromes of involvement of gastrointestinal tract
2. Enteritis is usually manifested by
swelling of the stomach, flatulence (“rumbling in the stomach”), pain in the paraumbilical region.
The stool is plentiful, watery, often foamy, with strong smell.
There is a marked venous net on the skin of the abdomen.
The syndrome of enteritis is often combined with some form of gastritis.

10. May be intertrigo, irritation in skin folds

11. 3. Colitis syndrome.
As a rule, the stomach is sunken, but may be swollen in children under 1 year.
The pain is usually spasmodic, localized in the lower part of the abdomen, more often in the left iliac region.

12. false impulses to defecate (tenesmus),
3. Colitis syndrome.
There are
false impulses to defecate (tenesmus),
feeling of incomplete evacuation of feces from the intestine after defecation.

13. On palpation, the sigmoid colon is spasmodic and tender.
3. Colitis syndrome.
On palpation, the sigmoid colon is spasmodic and tender.
The anal sphincter is weak;
The stool is scanty and frequent, with considerable mucous admixtures and traces of blood.

14. General clinical manifestations of acute intestinal infections
The signs of distal colitis are the following:
the stool is very frequent, scanty with great volume of mucus (“rectal spit”);
gaping of the anus;
tenesmus;
prolapse of the rectum.
In infants, colitis syndrome is manifested by uneasiness, making efforts to defecate, moving of legs, and reddened face at defecation.

15. CRITERIA OF SEVERITY IN ACUTE INTESTINAL INFECTIONS

16. SLIGHT
MODERATE
SEVERE
slight intoxication
general condition slightly changed,
temperature up to 37,0-38,5°С,
moderate intoxication (limpness, reduced appetite),
temperature up to 38,5-39,5°С,
severe intoxication, anxiety, convul-sions, meningeal symptoms
body temperature up to 39,5-40°С,
rare vomiting
(0-1 time)
repeated vomiting
(1-2 times)
vomiting 3 times and more,
dehydration (2-3 degree)
stool 5-7 times a day
stool up to times a day,
stool more then times a day

17. What should be your diagnosis?
The primary diagnosis:
AIDs, enteritis, moderate severity.

18. Diagnosis and laboratory studies
Epidemiological history taking
Clinical manifestations (general intoxication syndrome + diarrhea syndrome)
Laboratory studies:
а) coprogram (micro- and macroscopic study of feces)
b) bacteriological studies (feces, blood, urine, vomiting masses, stomach discharge after irrigation for differential diagnostic media)
c) serological tests (direct hemagglutination reaction and indirect hemagglutination reaction; Vidal’s reaction), immunoenzyme method;
d) express methods (IFR: immunofluorescence reaction