Diseases transmitted through the digestive tract

The digestive tract is a very important organ in the human body and is also a part that is very susceptible to bacterial infection. Digestive tract diseases not only affect the patient's own physical health, but more importantly, they are highly contagious, so patients generally need to be isolated. There are many diseases that can be transmitted through the digestive tract, which requires everyone's attention. So, what are the diseases that are transmitted through the digestive tract?

Digestive tract infectious diseases

Digestive tract infectious diseases are mainly transmitted through the patient's excrement (such as vomit, feces, etc.). They are diseases that enter the body through the mouth. The pathogens are discharged from the patient or carrier with the excrement, and then contaminated by hands, water, food and tableware through daily contact and are ingested into the body, causing infection. Common gastrointestinal infectious diseases include bacillary dysentery, poliomyelitis (i.e., infantile paralysis), typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, cholera, paracholera, amoebic dysentery, various enterovirus infections (such as coxsackievirus, echovirus, etc.), bacterial food poisoning, and various intestinal parasitic diseases (such as ascariasis, redworm disease, pinworm disease, and ginger worm disease).

Control the source of infection

1. Isolate patients and suspected patients until they are no longer contagious, and those in contact should be kept for inspection for a certain period of time. All tableware, tea sets and daily necessities of suspected patients should be used and kept separately. Suspected patients in collective units must also have separate dormitories, dedicated toilets, and isolated meals. Cooks and childcare workers are required to undergo regular physical examinations every year. If they are found to be sick (such as suffering from dysentery) or suspected to be sick, they will be transferred from their jobs and can only resume their original jobs after they have recovered.

Cut off the transmission route

2. To cut off the transmission route, pay attention to personal hygiene and food hygiene, wash hands before meals and after defecation, and wash and scald fruits and vegetables before eating them raw. Implement the Food Hygiene Law and prohibit the sale of unclean, spoiled and corrupt food. Do a good job in exterminating maggots, flies, cockroaches and rats. Strengthen water source management. Set up harmless toilets, and the patient's excrement can only be poured into the toilet after disinfection. Contaminated clothing and toilet bowls should also be disinfected.

Protecting vulnerable groups

3. To protect susceptible groups, vaccinations should be carried out regularly (such as polio vaccine, typhoid vaccine, paratyphoid vaccine, etc.). You can also inject immunoglobulin for the corresponding disease (such as to prevent hepatitis A) or take Chinese herbal medicine (such as garlic, honeysuckle, wild chrysanthemum, etc. to prevent bacterial dysentery) to prevent the epidemic.

Report to the epidemic prevention department

4. Once a legal infectious disease (such as cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever, ascariasis, etc.) is diagnosed, it should be reported to the epidemic prevention department immediately.