Infections

Question 1

gastroenteritis

Answer 1

inflammation of the stomach and intestines

Question 2

signs + symptoms of gastroenteritis

Answer 2

diarrhoea, vomiting and abd pain

typically lasting less than two weeks

Question 3

bloody stools indicate a more likely ______ cause

Answer 3

bacterial

Question 4

______ causes tend to last less than one week

Answer 4

viral

Question 5

steatorrhoea

Answer 5

fatty stools (Giardiasis and Coeliac)

Question 6

Dystentery/inflammatory diarrhoea

Answer 6

D with the presence of blood and mucus (Chron’s/UC)

Question 7

Explosive diarrhoea

Answer 7

cholera, giardia, rotavirus

Question 8

mucus in diarrhoea

Answer 8

cancer? IBS? IBD?

Question 9

symptoms of gastroenteritis in large bowel

Answer 9

Watery stool +- blood and mucus

pelvic pain tends to be relieved by defaecation

often urgency/tenesmus (Shigella, Salmonella and C. diff)

Question 10

symptoms of gastroenteritis in the small bowel

Answer 10

periumbilical (or RIF) pain tends to not be relived by defaecatoin