Fungal enteritis

Fungal enteritis is a deep fungal disease. There are many types of it, the most common of which is Candida enteritis. It is very common in children, especially malnourished children are prone to this disease. The most common symptoms of Aspergillus enteritis are abdominal pain and bloody stools. Patients with Mucor enteritis will experience abdominal pain, diarrhea, black stools, and vomiting blood. This disease is very harmful.

To understand fungal enteritis, we need to understand some of its clinical symptoms. Knowing these symptoms, we can discover the disease in the first time when it occurs. We should also pay more attention to the diet of patients with fungal enteritis and be sure to pay attention to some foods that should not be eaten.

1. Candidal enteritis is the most common and is more common in children, especially infants who are malnourished or severely exhausted. The main symptoms are diarrhea, with 10 to 20 bowel movements a day, which are watery or tofu-like, with a lot of foam and a yellow-green color. It may be accompanied by abdominal distension, low fever, and even vomiting, but abdominal pain is rare. Iodine smears of stool specimens showed a large number of budding yeasts and hyphae, and most of the cultured yeasts were Candida albicans. Children often have thrush. Patients with underlying diseases often have a history of using broad-spectrum antibiotics before the onset of the disease. Immunodeficient patients are susceptible to developing disseminated candidiasis. If treated as general bacterial enteritis, the symptoms will be aggravated instead, the diarrhea will be protracted, often not healed for months, and will easily relapse after recovery.

2. Aspergillus enteritis is common in manual laborers with underlying diseases, and is mostly caused by Aspergillus fumigatus. Since Aspergillus fumigatus is not a normal intestinal flora, the infection is exogenous and often secondary to pulmonary aspergillosis. Aspergillus has a tendency to invade blood vessels, and its hyphae can penetrate the blood vessel wall and cause thrombosis. The clinical manifestations of aspergillosis are mainly abdominal pain and bloody stools, which can cause massive gastrointestinal bleeding, while the diarrhea is often atypical and lacks the protracted course of candidal enteritis. It can easily develop into disseminated aspergillosis after invading blood vessels.

3. Mucor enteritis is caused by ingestion of food contaminated with fungal spores and is common in malnourished children or patients with chronic gastrointestinal diseases. The clinical manifestations vary greatly depending on the affected area and the degree of infection. Its characteristic is the manifestation of mucosal ulcers or even perforation caused by vascular embolism, which is often accompanied by gastric infection and gastric ulcer. Abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting blood and black stools may occur, or intestinal perforation may lead to peritonitis, or invasion of gastrointestinal blood vessels may lead to hematogenous dissemination. The disease progresses rapidly and has a high mortality rate.

Diet and health care

1. What should you eat?

1) Ginger can prevent nausea and stomach discomfort and should be consumed before and during travel.

2) Peppermint tea can soothe an upset stomach, and a drop of peppermint oil on the tongue can relieve motion sickness.

3) Taking an appropriate amount of vitamin B6 1 hour before traveling can relieve symptoms.

4) Eat your favorite foods as much as possible

5) Bring some crackers with olive oil. Olive oil can reduce saliva secretion and prevent nausea.

2. What not to eat

Eat less food you don't like. Food should not contain too much spices or fat, and fried food should not be eaten.

Fungal enteritis is now a very common disease. Once a patient suffers from this disease, the patient's physical health will be greatly affected. Active treatment is necessary, especially in daily life, diet and health care must be done well. Scientific diet, what should be eaten and what should not be eaten must be understood. Also, more exercise and rest are required.