Dysentery

Dysentery refers to the presence of grossly visible blood in the stools and is a consequence of infection of the colon and Liver by either bacteria or ameba.

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Bacillary dysentery is much more common in children than amebic dysentery.

Major Causes of Dysentery:
1. Bacterial Dysentery:
  - Shigella: The most common cause of bacterial dysentery. Shigella dysenteriae is particularly virulent.
  - Salmonella: Some strains can cause dysentery, although they more commonly cause enterocolitis.
  - Campylobacter jejuni: Often acquired from contaminated food or water.
  - Escherichia coli (E. coli): Certain strains, such as Enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC), can cause dysentery-like symptoms.
2. Parasitic Dysentery:
  - Entamoeba histolytica: The protozoan parasite responsible for amoebic dysentery. It invades the colon wall and causes ulcers.
3. Viral Dysentery:
  - Rotavirus and norovirus: These viruses typically cause gastroenteritis but can sometimes lead to symptoms resembling dysentery, especially in young children.

Risk Factors:
- Poor Sanitation: Inadequate sanitation facilities increase the risk of exposure to contaminated food and water.
- Crowded Living Conditions: High population density areas with poor hygiene can facilitate the spread.
- Travel to Endemic Areas: Travelers to areas with poor sanitation are at higher risk.
- Compromised Immune System: Individuals with weakened immune systems are more susceptible.

Dysentery results from viral infections, bacterial infections, or parasitic These pathogens typically reach the large intestine after entering orally, through ingestion of contaminated food or water, oral contact with contaminated objects or hands, and so on.
Each specific pathogen has its own mechanism or pathogenesis, but in general the result is damage to the intestinal lining, leading to the inflammatory immune response.
This can cause elevated temperature, painful spasms of the intestinal muscles (cramping), swelling due to water leaking from capillaries of the intestine (edema), and further tissue damage by the body’s immune cells and the chemicals, called cytokines, they release to fight the infection.
The result can impaire nutrient absorption, excessive water and mineral loss through the stools due to breakdown of the control mechanisms in the intestinal tissue that normally remove water from the stools, and in severe cases the entry of pathogenic organisms into the bloodstream.
Some microorganisms – for example, bacteria of the genus Shigella– secrete substances known as cytotoxins, which kill and damage intestinal tissue on contact.
Viruses directly attack the intestinal cells, taking over their metabolic machinery to make copies of themselves, which leads to cell death.

The people experiencing dysentery either develop amoebic dysentery and bacterial dysentery.

Bacterial
Dysentery or Bacillary Dysentery

This type of dysentery is a result of infection with bacteria from Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, or enterohemorrhagic E. coli.
The diarrhea from Shigella is also called shigellosis. Shigellosis happens to be the most common type of dysentery.

2. Amoebic

Also known as amoebiasis, amoebic dysentery is caused by a single-celled parasite infecting the intestines.
This type of dysentery is a rare occurrence in the developed world and is mostly found in the tropical locales with poor sanitation.
A person can also become infected if he or she traveled to a country where it is an endemic.

Signs and Symptoms of Dysentery:
1. Diarrhea:
  - Frequent, loose, or watery stools.
  - Presence of blood and mucus in the stools.
2. Abdominal Pain and Cramping:
  - Severe, colicky abdominal pain.
  - Cramping that may be relieved by passing stools.
3. Fever:
  - Moderate to high fever, often accompanying the onset of symptoms.
4. Nausea and Vomiting:
  - Nausea may occur with or without vomiting.
5. Tenesmus:
  - A sensation of needing to pass stools even when the bowels are empty.
  - Painful straining during bowel movements.
6. Dehydration:
  - Symptoms of dehydration due to excessive fluid loss, including dry mouth, decreased urine output, and dizziness.
  - Severe dehydration can lead to shock, which is a medical emergency.

Vitals

Pulse

Tachycardia may be present

Blood Pressure

Hypotension may be present

Skin

Skin may appear dry and skin pinch may be delayed due to dehydration.

HEENT

The mouth and lips may appear dry due to dehydration.

Abdomen

Lower abdominal tenderness may also be present.

Stool culture and sensitivity should be sent for before starting empirical antibiotics.
CBC
If your healthcare provider suspects you have dysentery, they’ll order a stool culture.
To conduct a stool culture, your healthcare provider will give you a special container and a disposable spoon. The next time you have to poop, you’ll place plastic wrap or newspaper across the rim of your toilet to collect your poop. You can also poop into a different container. You’ll then use the disposable spoon to collect a small sample, put it in the special container and return it to your healthcare provider.
Your healthcare provider will send your sample to a lab. There, lab workers will test your sample for the presence of bacteria, parasites or ova (parasite egg cells).
You may have to provide samples of your poop over several days.
Your healthcare provider may also recommend a sigmoidoscopy. A sigmoidoscopy can help your healthcare provider confirm the diagnosis or rule out other causes of your symptoms. During a sigmoidoscopy, your healthcare provider will use a special scope to examine the inside of your lower (sigmoid) colon and rectum.

Your healthcare provider will diagnose dysentery. They’ll ask about your symptoms, conduct a physical exam and order tests.

Wash hands regularly using soap and water particularly before & after using bathroom and food preparation.
Drinking water only from reliable sources such as bottles and cans that are well-sealed
Ensuring that food is cooked in good conditions
Cleaning the top of rim after opening the bottle and before drinking from it
Avoiding ice cubes as its water source may be unknown
Using purified water for cleaning the teeth
Being careful while changing a baby’s diaper.
Preventing yourself from swallowing water while swimming
Avoid unpasteurized milk, cheese or dairy products
Drinking tap water which is boiled for at least 1 minute or filtered through a 1-micron filter with chlorine or iodine tablets added
Eating washed and peeled fruit or vegetables.

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Homeopathic Medicines for Dysentery

The homeopathic remedies (medicines) given below indicate the therapeutic affinity but this is not a complete and definite guide to the homeopathy treatment of this condition. The symptoms listed against each homeopathic remedy may not be directly related to this disease because in homeopathy general symptoms and constitutional indications also taken into account for selecting a remedy, potency and repetition of dose by Homeopathic doctor.

So, here we describe homeopathic medicine only for reference and education purpose. Do not take medicines without consulting registered homeopathic doctor (BHMS or M.D. Homeopath).

Medicine:

Aconite

It may be used, esp. if the disease occurs in Autumn, when warm days are followed by cold nights.
In the incipient stages such troubles may be promptly checked by it esp. when they are ushered in with a high temperature.
The high fever is associated with great thirst, good deal of colicky pains and restlessness.
The stools are scanty, bloody and slimy and are evacuated with much tenesmus. If it fails, it is followed well by Merc.

Aloe

It is useful, when there is griping pain in the hypogastrium, before stool.
The stools consist of blood and mucus, coming out in jelly-like masses.
The griping may or may not cease after stool. In addition, an extraordinary amount of mucus is expelled.

Arsenic Alb

Indicated in most serious cases, whose exciting causes are: Sudden chilling of the stomach and bowels by ice-water or ice- cream; alcoholic drinks in excess; certain poisons as the ptomaine of sausage meat that has been spoiled; rancid fat; spoiled butter or fat that has undergone decomposition; and lobster salads at certain seasons of the year.
The patient is very sick, as if near death’s door but he is restless and complains of burning thirst and yet exhibits an intolerance of water.
Burning pains The discharges from the bowels are brownish or blackish, and horribly offensive.

Baptisia

You will have to give it, when the discharges are offensive, bloody and attend by tenesmus, but with a significant absence of pain, showing an alarming depression of vitality.

Cantharis

It is of use, when the discharges are bloody and slimy and mix with flakes, that look like scrapings from intestines, but in reality, fibrinous formations, resulting from the inflammation.
Colic-like pains of a cutting, burning, griping or wandering character, doubling the patient up.
Tenesmus mark and is almost always associated with dysuria.

Capsicum

It is good for Dysentery occurring in moist weather and best indicate in stout flabby persons.
The stools are bloody and slimy and contain shaggy pieces; they are frequent, but small in quantity and attended with violent tenesmus and burning in both rectum and bladder.
The pains and other symptoms increase by the slightest draft of either warm or cold air.
There is thirst, but drinking of water causes shuddering and increases the pains.

Carbo Veg

It indicate in very severe cases, with great weakness and Hippocratic face, when: The discharges from the bowels are brown, watery and slimy and both stools and flatus are horribly offensive.
The abdomen greatly distend and tympanic.
There burning pains situated deep in abdomen, usually in one or the other of the bends of the colon.
The pulse is weak and intermittent.
In typhoid conditions as a sequel to Dysentery, it presents a more perfect picture of collapse and there are tympany, cold legs, esp. up to the knees, filiform pulse, cool breath, absence of discharges from the bowels or involuntary, putrid, bloody, purulent diarrhoea. The patient is, as if, near death.

Cinchona

It indicate in severer cases, when putrid or gangrenous changes occur .
The discharges are cadaverous smelling, and are of a dark or of a chocolate color, with coldness, great debility and Hippocratic face; the movements from the bowels provoke by every attempt to eat and drink.
The abdomen greatly distend and tympanitic Belching gives but temporary relief.

Colchicum

It indicate in the discharges from the bowels are frequent, watery and bloody containing white flakes or shreds, and followed by violent tenesmus, constriction of the anus and spasm of the sphincter ani, tormenting the patient more than the urging during stool.

Colocynth

The stools slimy and bloody-contain the so-call scrapings of intestines, made worse by any attempt to eat or drink.
They precede by violent tenesmus which ceases after stools.
Pains are atrocious-griping, cutting, stabbing colicky pains, which force the patient to bend double or to press firmly against the abdomen; they more often precede the stool and relieve afterwards, although they may sometimes continue after stool.

Dioscorea

Just before and during stool severe pain in sacral region and bowels, of a writhing drawing character; the pains radiate upward and downward, until the whole body and extremities, even the fingers and toes, become involved with spasms, eliciting shrieks from the patient.
Spasmodic pains in the bowels, with unusually severe tenesmus.
Tools like abdomen, but lumpy, with straining and burning in rectum, and sensation as if the faeces were hot during the stool nearly fainting.

Gambusia

Chill and pain in back; bitter taste in the mouth, burning of the tongue; soreness all over; watery stools attended with colic or green mixed mucus, with burning tenesmus and prolapses ani; offensive, frequent and copious stools, coming out all at once, giving great relief.

Kali bich

It indicate when the disease occurs periodically in the Spring, or in the early part of Summer.
The stools are brownish and watery and mixed with blood and mucus and attended with great tenesmus.
The distinctive symptom is the appearance of the tongue, which is dry, smooth, red and cracked.

Mercurious

Excoriating discharges; cutting in the lower part of the abdomen, at night; the abdomen is externally cold to the touch;
Cutting stitch in the lower abdomen, from right to left, and aggravated by walking;
Faecal putrid taste in the mouth; nausea; with vertigo obscured vision, and flashes of heat offensive perspiration
The pains increase before the stool and during the stool, with violent tenesmus;
The pains rather increase after a stool, and sometimes they extend to the back, during the stool, hot sweat on the forehead, which soon becomes cold and sticky; frequent discharge of pure blood or bloody green mucus, like stirred eggs, screams during stool (in children). Aggravation during night till about 3 A.M.

Nitric Acid

In general, Diphtheric dysentery burning in rectum towards perineum, with ineffectual urging; straining without stool; stools bloody, with tenesmus; putrid, mucous.
Moreover, After which the tenesmus continues, followed by headache; dryness of throat.
Lastly, Violent thirst, intermittent pulse; anxiety and general uneasiness, exhaustion.

Nux Vomica

Stools, small, slimy, bloody, with urging.
Tenesmus ceasing after stool, like pitch with blood.
Pressing in loins also upper part of sacral region, with sensations if broken; longing for brandy.
Milky sours on stomach; great debility with over sensitiveness of all the senses; hypochondriac mood.

Sulphur

It will be the remedy in acute diseases when after the administration of Merc. the tenesmus and blood have ceased, but the mucus still persists.
A very strong characteristic symptom, which often indicates it in Dysentery, etc.
The lips are of a rich color or the redness of the various orifices of the body.
It best-adapt to chronic or persistent cases, esp. when tenesmus continues from one evacuation to another.
When the bleeding and tenesmus have abated, the stools are still slimy, with frequent sudden urging; or particularly after tenesmus has ceased, mucus and blood still discharge.

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Avoid dairy products. If you have lactose intolerance, then dairy products can be a major cause of diarrhoea and should be avoided in general.
Do steer clear of too much fiber. Fiber is incredibly healthy when it comes to your everyday diet.
Eat a simple diet. The traditional anti-diarrhoea diet was the “BRAT” diet, which stood for bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast.
Wash your hands regularly. When you do wash, scrub your palms, the back of your hands, between your fingers, and under your nails, and do it for at least 20 seconds
Stay hydrated. Above most other things, replenishing the fluids that can be lost during severe diarrhoea is an important step to take.

What is Dysentery

Homeopathic Medicines used by Homeopathic Doctors in treatment of Dysentery

Aloe
Arsenic Alb
Baptisia
Carbo Veg
Cinchona
Colchicum
Colocynth
Dioscorea
Kali bich
Nux Vomica
Sulphur

What are the symptoms of Dysentery

Fever and diarrhea
Diarrhea- watery, mucus and blood mixed with stools
Tenesmus
Dehydration
Dyselectrolytemia
Hemolytic uremic syndrome
Convulsions

What causes Dysentery

Shigella species
Enteroinvasive
Enterohemorrhagic E. coli
Salmonella
Campylobacter jejuni
Medications – Rifaximin, Sulfasalazine
Cancer

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