Gastroenteritis how long does last

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Obviously I cannot verify or diagnose that your daughter has or had a viral gastroenteritis ie "stomach bug" but in my experience my patients typically recover in 3-5 days. However, many of my patients will have prolonged symptoms of bloating and generalized discomfort for another week, especially if they try to return to a rich diet.

When my mother started having symptoms, she was uncomfy for only a few hours and then felt better. How long is a bout of food poisoning supposed to last? I'm wondering because like I said this is my third day of symptoms. I seem to go to the bathroom pretty much every hour, although so far today I've only gone once.

THE ER DOCTOR SAID THAT HE SHOULD BE BETTER IN A COUPLE OF DAYS---HE HAS BEEN DRINKING PEDIALITE AND WATER AND HE STARTING TO EAT SMALL MEALS. BUT OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM IS THAT HE IS STILL DIZZY. HOW LONG WILL THE DIZZINESS LAST? AND WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO OR DRINK OR EAT TO GET BACK IN BALANCE (EQILIBRIUM)? IS GATORADE ANOTHER CHOSE? TODAY IS A WEEK THAT HE HAS BEEN SICK, HOW MUCH LONGER? I THINK THAT HE PROBABLY HAD SEVERE DEHYDRATION--IF SO ABOUT HOW LONG BEFOR THE DIZZINESS ENDS?

-How long can a child be safe without having any stool. In order for me to know which food she is not tolerating well, how long after the intake will she be vomitting if it is not tolerated. -For the after breakfast vomitting any solutions (she has had a piece of white toast with nothing on and apple sauce or 1 piece of toast with better, both have been followed by vomitting, the rest of the day was fine with poached fish and boilled potato and rice) .

Next week, I will have an ultrasound down on my stomach and gallbladder. Does anyone know realistically, how long it takes for the stomach and intestines to get back to normal after a bout with viral gastroenteritis? I'm ready to eat and enjoy my favorite foods again.

April, reading through your story I'm remembering my oldest son had bouts like that. Where his stomach just KEPT hurting. My younger son has bouts where he throws up in cycles too - LONG cycles, he'll vomit every couple days. I wonder if this might be related to his unfilled cavities?

As some of you know, back in March I decided I was on way too many meds and at dosages that were too high (for me.) I came off the Fentanyl patch relatively easily and from there decided to taper down my other meds. I wasn't getting great pain control anyway. In May, I wound up in the ER. I thought I was in acute withdrawal and needed IV fluids. Our local hospital is okay for stitches and small things but it wouldn't be my choice for anything even mildly serious.

her main complaint was nausea and/or significant reflux that would come for no reason and usually passed off as viral gastroenteritis until this last episode .. Gastro reflux churned about 48hrs before an "attack" ocurred but on a daily basis her issues were more intestinal/stomach strapping pain and loose stools and then would go away within 36-48hrs. Not a longer time inbetween meals for hunger, or anything like that.

since I have started dontating plasma, I have had a 104 degree fever, gastroenteritis, and tonsillitis. This is all within 4 months, and prior to that i have not been sick since the 5th grade. I am 22 years old. Undoubtidy donating plasma lowers your immune system and there is nobody who could ever tell me differently.

Any other information to help me shed light on this would be helpful. I can't take feeling like this EVERY day ALL day anymore. I want to know what it is and how to fix it. Please Please help me Please!!

A small flare up will last for about 2-3 days, this one is been going on 2 weeks, as i was on antibiotics for something else, and it messed me up pretty bad. I am just wondering how many other people have these issues? Please write and let me know.

So it was in your system pretty good. I am not sure how long it takes for it to come completly go out of your system. Does zoloft help with the serotonin production? Because if it does then you are not going to feel better until your body starts producing serotonin again. Why did your doctor put u on zoloft in the begining? If you pump up your vitiman C and take some b1 and b2s it may help you feel better. Even if you don't feel like it...try to eat healthy:-) that makes a Huge difference...

Hi there! This is likely to be a viral gastroenteritis which should subside on its own in 5-10 days. I would suggest taking plenty of fluids with added sugar and salt/ commercially available oral rehydration solution to compensate for the fluids lost. If the symptoms do not settle in 5-10 days or there is development of additional symptoms such as blood in stools, I would suggest an evaluation by a primary care physician for appropriate management.

Unfortunately it's the weekend and my doctor isn't in, but I have to work and I'm not sure how I can like this. Any advice? How long should this last? What can I do?

Does she have any diarrhea/constipation? If so, does it smell "extra bad"? Does she have any fever? Any recent travel? Is there any blood in her stools? Has she began to menstruate (yes, I know she is young - just asking).

Hello - thanks for asking your question. There are many causes for a lack of appetite.

Doc has not mentioned testing anything, just referred us to childrens hospital. Don't know how long we will have to wait on that.

The burps are horrible smelling (sometimes worse then the farts). I could just burp all day long, it seems. This all started about the last time a certain fast food chain had that e-coli outbreak... and I had been eating there around that time. Granted, it's been about 3 months... first the aweful burps started slowly... and now more and more followed by excessive farting. Could this be some kind of mild e-coli? Parasite? Lactose intolerance?

Finally, your symptoms do not suggest a new HIV infection, which does not cause gastroenteritis as the only problem; as you seem to know, you didn't have any of the usual symptoms of ARS. But most important, your negative test results, especially the one at 7 weeks, prove you didn't catch HIV. A negative rapid test, either fignerstick or oral fluids, is just as reliable as a lab-based test. Something other than HIV is the cause of your gastroenteritis.

Thank you for your reply, it is was very helpful. But How long should I wait to get tested to be certain I am negative ? In your other posts i read 6 weeks is 95% and at 8 weeks it's 99%. Is this true? Just wanted to double check as different posts talk about different tests.

He had a low grade fever that did not last long vet gave him trimethoprim/sulfadizine(tribrissen) when i talked to the vet a few days back and he gave us a the Rx he thought that the stomach flu was caused by Bactria, took in a stool sample the next day waiting back test results. When we went to vet today he said he for sure thought it stomach flu cause by a bacterial infections that why he start to feel better after he started the antibiotics, it he said it had to run it course.

I will ask for a referral to GI doctor to get this done. Lastly, could you please tell me how long on an average it takes to cure h.pylori and also if h.pylori causes a lot of gas especially flatulence. And also, are there any food items to avoid in general? Thanks.

My pain always happens between 2am and 5 am. It can last as long as half an hour. It always starts as a stomach ache, then chills and cold sweat. The pain rolls upward underneath my breast bone and spreads to the left and right and wraps around to the back. The pain is extremely intense, it worsens with movement. The only positions I can tolerate is doubled over on my knees. As the pain peaks, I shake and a couple of times felt I would pass out.

If I ever have to think about this getting worse I don't want it to be for a long, long time. This piece on Wickepedia bothered me as well...I guess I would still be a "1"? Grade Description Grade 1 Very faint, heard only after listener has "tuned in"; may not be heard in all positions. Grade 2 Quiet, but heard immediatedly after placing the stethoscope on the chest. Grade 3 Moderately loud. Grade 4 Loud, with palpable thrill. Grade 5 Very loud, with thrill.

Ok so here's whats been going on.. it may sound long and complicated and I guess it is... I'm 25, was otherwise healthy up until a few months ago.. pain and symptoms began in February. Since then I've been having severe stabbing pain in my chest and shooting pain up my throat, which later moved to stabbing pain between my shoulder blades, into my shoulders, and then to a burning and stabbing pain in my stomach. I also often get a burning pain in my ribs as well.

She was born as a healthy child and on 2months she was to be hospitalized for severe stomach infection and dehydration. After that she became lactose and sucrose intolerant and had severe diarrhea and gastroenteritis infections every 10 days and that would last for a week. All this settled down when she turned 15months old. She started digesting normal food. Then one fine day when she was nearly 20 months old I took her to a family get-together and she started complaining of pain in her knee.

Lyme can cause vomiting, but so can long term antibiotics. I have had nausea (although I haven't vomited) in the last couple weeks, and it is nearly gone after several days off my meds. I think my stomach was just overloaded after months of taking them. On the topic of parasites, I tested positive for an unknown parasite (via a GI analysis) shortly after I was diagnosed with Lyme. I took a drug called Xifaxin for about 10 days and it definitely reduced my stomach pain.

I am a 29-year-old male and about two years ago, I decided to start taking better care of my heart. My family has a long history of heart troubles and I wanted to stop mine before they began. I work out three times a week, do not smoke, and have only a few beers a week. A few months ago, I began to feel a pain in the area of my chest where my heart is housed. The pain is dull, and it never actually feels like it is emanating deep from within (i.e. from the heart itself).

It would provide some good information for your doctors to help profile your entire condition, which I understand is not just involving bowel habits but a long long history of heartburn and taking medication to suppress it. Heartburn is not always just heartburn. Scope the upper GI...you could have a tumor or some other condition which is causing some of the symptoms.

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