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Choleria is a severe bacterial gastrointestinal, diarrheal disease. In its most severe forms, cholera is one of the most rapidly fatal illnesses known. A healthy person may become [[hypotension|hypotensive]] within an hour of the onset of symptoms and may die within 2-3 hours if no treatment is provided. More commonly, the disease progresses from the first liquid stool to shock in 4-12 hours, with death following in 18 hours to several days without [[rehydration]] treatment.<ref name=McLeod_2000>{{cite journal |author=McLeod K |title=Our sense of Snow: John Snow in medical geography |journal=Soc Sci Med |volume=50 |issue=7-8 |pages=923-35 |year=2000 |pmid = 10714917}}</ref><ref> WHO Cholera [http://www.who.int/topics/cholera/control/en/index.html]</ref> | Choleria is a severe bacterial gastrointestinal, diarrheal disease. In its most severe forms, cholera is one of the most rapidly fatal illnesses known. A healthy person may become [[hypotension|hypotensive]] within an hour of the onset of symptoms and may die within 2-3 hours if no treatment is provided. More commonly, the disease progresses from the first liquid stool to shock in 4-12 hours, with death following in 18 hours to several days without [[rehydration]] treatment.<ref name=McLeod_2000>{{cite journal |author=McLeod K |title=Our sense of Snow: John Snow in medical geography |journal=Soc Sci Med |volume=50 |issue=7-8 |pages=923-35 |year=2000 |pmid = 10714917}}</ref><ref> WHO Cholera [http://www.who.int/topics/cholera/control/en/index.html]</ref> | ||
==History and symptoms== | |||
===History=== | ===History=== | ||
* Patient may give a history of consumption of contaminated food or water. | * Patient may give a history of consumption of contaminated food or water. | ||
* Symptoms usually develop 24-48 hours of consumption. | * Symptoms usually develop 24-48 hours of consumption. | ||
* Visit to cholera prone areas. | * Visit to cholera prone areas. | ||
===Symptoms=== | ===Symptoms=== | ||
====Diarrhea==== | ====Diarrhea==== | ||
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Overview
Choleria is a severe bacterial gastrointestinal, diarrheal disease. In its most severe forms, cholera is one of the most rapidly fatal illnesses known. A healthy person may become hypotensive within an hour of the onset of symptoms and may die within 2-3 hours if no treatment is provided. More commonly, the disease progresses from the first liquid stool to shock in 4-12 hours, with death following in 18 hours to several days without rehydration treatment.[1][2]
History and symptoms
History
- Patient may give a history of consumption of contaminated food or water.
- Symptoms usually develop 24-48 hours of consumption.
- Visit to cholera prone areas.
Symptoms
Diarrhea
- Sudden onset
- Painless
- Odorless
- Watery consistency (initially it may have some fecal matter but with disease progression it is mostly watery)
- It is pale white in color and thus sometimes referred as 'Rice water stool'(this is so because it has similar color and consistency as water left after washing stool)
- Voluminous (stool volume during cholera is more than that of any other infectious diarrhea causing uncontrolled bowel movements)
- Abdominal cramp (due to large volume of intestinal secretion)
- Fever is usually absent
Vomiting
- Causes for vomiting are decreased intestinal motility and acidemia