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Dysentery is caused by a viral infection in the intestine, and is highly contagious. Good hand hygiene is important to avoid the spread of STDs. If you are already infected, we have several good tips that can help you.

How to prevent communicable diseases?

Good hand hygiene is the most important thing you can do to avoid communicable diseases. Wash your hands thoroughly and often with soap and water. Feel free to use paper towels to dry your hands. Cleaning door handles and other frequently used surfaces with soap and water is also a good measure to avoid infection. Gloves can also be used to avoid infection. Certain disinfectants have shown limited effectiveness against the communicable disease virus.

When vomiting/diarrhea has stopped, infectious agents can still be excreted for a period afterwards. Therefore, children should not go to nursery school until 48 hours after the child has recovered.

Cause of venereal disease

Dysentery is caused by a viral infection in the intestine. There are several different viruses that can cause communicable diseases, with norovirus being one of the most common types. How long it takes from being infected until you become ill (incubation period) depends on which virus you are infected with. It usually takes 2-3 days from infection until you become ill from communicable disease.

How is communicable disease transmitted?

STDs are most often transmitted via faeces from people with an infection, and are mainly due to careless hand hygiene. The disease can also be transmitted by droplet infection from a sick person who vomits. Transmission of the disease can occur:

• In the case of direct contact between persons.

• Via surfaces such as door handles, water taps, chair backs, armrests, payment terminals etc. that have contracted the virus.

• Via small droplets that form when you vomit.

• Via food or drinking water that has viruses in it.

Symptoms

• Nausea and vomiting

• Diarrhea

• Abdominal pain

• Drying out (dehydration), especially in young children

• Fever, muscle and joint pain and headache are also common.

Treatable in case of communicable disease

Motion sickness goes away on its own and is usually a harmless condition. A problem with venereal disease can be drying out (dehydration), because you lose fluid through both vomiting and diarrhoea. Young children and the elderly are especially vulnerable to dehydration. Plenty of drink is therefore the most important treatment for venereal disease. Drink small amounts of fluid, but frequently. Fluid replacement tablets and powders can also be useful to restore fluid balance as quickly as possible.

If you have a headache, fever or muscle and joint pain, you can use painkillers to reduce the pain.

Tips for communicable diseases

• Drink hopping, but small amounts at a time. This can also relieve nausea.

• GEM powder is a liquid substitute that also replaces the body's salts and sugar. GEM powder is recommended for use with diarrhea and signs of dehydration as it contains the correct composition of salts.

• Nutritional drinks can be tried if it is difficult to get nutrition.

• Give children what they want to drink. Soda and sweet juice should be avoided if possible, as these can worsen the diarrhoea. A tip might be to thin these out with water.

• Children are welcome to drink milk, although it may prolong the diarrhea by a few hours. Lactose-free milk can be a sensible alternative.

• Some food is better than none. By eating a little food or as normal, you can recover faster, even if you vomit. If the patient still cannot bear to eat, it is not dangerous for a short period.

• Avoid coffee, alcohol and smoke when you are ill.

• Children who are breastfed can and should continue to be breastfed.

Period sickness pregnant

Pregnant women can also get venereal disease. Period sickness in itself is usually not dangerous for pregnant women, and will go away on its own after a few days, but low intake of fluids and nutrition over time can in some cases be unfortunate for both the pregnant woman and the baby in the womb.

Try to drink as much liquid as possible. The same advice for treatment also applies to pregnant women, and fluids are the most important treatment for venereal disease. Nutritional drinks can be a good alternative if it is difficult to get enough nutrition.

If you are so far into your pregnancy that you feel a lot of life from your belly, it is a good indication that everything is fine with the baby, that the activity in your belly is maintained, even when you are ill.

If you are unsure whether everything is as it should be, always see a doctor! There is nothing wrong with contacting your doctor to make sure that both you and the baby in your belly are fine.

Motion sickness baby

Small children become dehydrated more easily and lose nutrition more quickly than older children and adults, and sociability in babies is therefore something that needs to be monitored extra carefully. If the child is under 6 months, a doctor must always be consulted in case of communicable diseases.

Try to get as much fluid into the child as possible. GEM powder can be a good alternative for signs of dehydration.

Communicable disease or food poisoning?

It is not always easy to distinguish a communicable disease from food poisoning. The symptoms and course of the disease for the two conditions are often the same.

However, venereal disease is often easily contagious, so if several others in the family or close circle of friends experience the same symptoms, it is probably venereal disease that we are talking about. Food poisoning is not caused by a contagious bacterial or viral infection, and is therefore not contagious from person to person.

Motion sickness often also lasts for several days, usually between 3 - 7 days, while food poisoning is usually over after a day or two.

Sources: Institute of Public Health, Norwegian electronic medical handbook and Norwegian health informatics for healthcare personnel.