Eight-month-old Pippi suddenly has loose bowels. At first, her mother didn't care too much, wondering if the baby usually likes to eat hands, so it was caused by eating unclean things. Unexpectedly, two days later, there were mucus and bloodshot in Pippi's stool, even several times a day, and the stool was bloody. Pippi also cried more than usual and even had a fever.

Mom quickly took Pippi to the doctor. The doctor examined the stool and found that both white blood cells and red blood cells were significantly elevated. The doctor diagnosed bacterial enteritis.

Pippi's mother wondered: How can you get bacterial enteritis? Children are usually taken care of at home, tableware is disinfected and food is generally heated. Later, Pippi's mother finally remembered that Pippi had eaten a strawberry before having diarrhea. Strawberries were sent from other places and kept in the refrigerator for a day, but they still looked fresh. Pippi fell in love with beautiful strawberries, so her mother washed them and gave them to Pippi. Unexpectedly, it was such a fresh-looking strawberry that Pippi was infected with bacterial enteritis.

Knowledge of bacterial enteritis

Now the weather is getting warmer every day. When spring returns to the earth, everything recovers, and microorganisms also recover at the same time. Bacterial enteritis is generally a disease that occurs after eating food contaminated by bacteria because of unsanitary diet. Possible clinical manifestations include vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloody stool and fever.

With the improvement of living standards, especially in urban population, the incidence of bacterial enteritis has decreased compared with before, mostly in hot summer. Common pathogens causing bacterial enteritis include Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus, Salmonella, Shigella, Clostridium and Campylobacter jejuni.

However, the temperature rises in spring and summer, and food is easy to deteriorate, which provides a good breeding ground for bacteria. Generally, food can kill bacteria after being heated at high temperature, but fruits are generally eaten raw. Some fruits that are not peeled, uneven in surface and difficult to clean are easy to hide bacteria. People often think that the refrigerator can preserve food well, but the temperature of 4℃ in the freezer is a hotbed of many bacteria. Therefore, the refrigerator should always be cleaned with disinfectant, and the food taken out of the freezer should be thoroughly cleaned and soaked before eating.

If you are unfortunately infected with bacterial enteritis, don't be too nervous. Some mild bacterial enteritis can also be improved by routine nursing. You need a doctor's face-to-face consultation to give treatment advice, not necessarily antibiotics. Treatment focuses on oral rehydration salts to prevent and correct dehydration and electrolyte disorder. However, severe bacterial enteritis requires the use of antibiotics under the guidance of doctors, and stool culture as much as possible to find pathogenic bacteria and conduct drug sensitivity tests.