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- What is bacterial gastroenteritis?
- Symptoms of bacterial gastroenteritis
- Causes of bacterial gastroenteritis
- Prevention of bacterial gastroenteritis
- Risk factors for bacterial gastroenteritis
- Complications of bacterial gastroenteritis
- When to see a doctor about bacterial gastroenteritis
- Diagnosis of bacterial gastroenteritis
- Conventional treatment of bacterial gastroenteritis
- Alternative/complementary treatment of bacterial gastroenteritis
- Living with bacterial gastroenteritis
- Caring for someone with bacterial gastroenteritis
Causes of bacterial gastroenteritis
Bacterial gastroenteritis is caused by bacteria. Each type of bacteria causes slightly different symptoms, but all will invariably cause at the least, diarrhoea (mild to severe).
There are many types of bacteria that can produce symptoms associated with this condition, some of the most common bacteria are listed below:
- Campylobacter jejuni
- Clostridium
- E. Coli
- Salmonella
- Shigella
- Staphylococcus
- Yersinia
The main ways that a person can be infected by the bacteria is through the following:
- Food that has not been cooked, stored, handled or prepared properly
- Reheating meat dishes several times
- Unpasteurised dairy products (although this does not mean all unpasteurised dairy products will cause this condition, but some may)
- Drinking contaminated water
- Infection from a person with the bacterial infection
Some sources of the infection are improperly prepared food, reheated meat dishes, seafood, dairy, and bakery products. Each organism causes slightly different symptoms but all result in a bacterial gastroenteritis infection
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