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Cholera

Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of water or food contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Its main symptoms include vomiting and profuse watery diarrhea. It is mainly treated with oral rehydration solution and intravenous fluids.

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What happens when you breathe cholera?

You will not get the cholera by breathing the cholera bacilli. They can infect the gut only. You may get immunized to cholera. But immunity to cholera is short lasting and is not very effective as well. By injecting dead cholera bacilli you get the immunity for cholera.

What is a cholorea?

cholera is a disease caused by a bacteria that realeases a toxin in the intestine and causes severe diarreah

What are roles and responsibilities of nurse in cholera?

It is gift to get help from the nurse in any emergency problem. She is designed by nature to take care. With help of good and trained nursing staff, you can manage the cholera ward very easily.

What is the most common victim vibrio cholerae attacks?

vibrio cholerae is found in aquatic enviroments.

so common victims would be people with fish pets or live near any kind of pond or river.

What drugs kill vibrio cholerae?

Severe cases of the disease must be treated in hospital.

The first and most vital measure is to replace the fluid lost. If speed is important, fluid may be administered directly into the bloodstream by a drip.

During epidemics, 90 per cent of those who get ill would be okay if they drank large amounts of water.

The course of the disease can be shortened and the excretion of bacteria stopped quicker by giving antibiotics, such as doxycyclin.

What injection would you give someone in hostpital with cholera?

Only antibiotics will really help. The only way to cure cholera is with time and replenishing the body fluids. The antibiotics will slow the bacteria for it to be eliminated by the white blood cells.

When did Zimbabwean cholera outbreak happen?

Zimbabwean cholera outbreak happened in 2009.

How does cholera affect your digestive system?

it is a bacteria that lives in unsanitary water. It is then ingested and begins it's way through our digestive system. they reach the small intestine, using their flagella (tail) to transport them. they then secrete a toxin which causes water to be transported into the blood via osmosis, causing severe diarrhoea and vomiting

How do you get choleara?

Normally cholera is caught by drinking infected water or eating food that has been contaminated by a person infected with the bacteria (not washing their hands properly).

Why was cholera so deadly in 1800 England?

They did not know how to sanitize objects to keep germs off of them. Thus, germs spread quickly throughout a small town.

Why didn't cholera spread to the Brewery on broad street in central London?

these institutions had their own wells and the brewery employees and workhouse inhabitants did not use water from the affected well.

What was the prevention of cholera in 1800?

Cholera did not exist in the U.S. or Europe in 1800. It appeared in the 1830's. Once it arrived, the only method of prevention was sanitation and keeping drinking water free of contamination by the cholera bacillus

What countries is cholera found?

Frequently in the sub-equatorial Africa and in the Southern part of Asia.

Does boiling water help prevent cholera?

Well the idea behind this concept is heat kills bacteria, to a point. Boiling water doesn't necessarily prevent diseases in as much as it kills bacteria on the item being boiled. So if there are a number of people in the house with the flu, and there is a healthy baby in the same house, boiling a baby bottle won't prevent spreading the disease, it will only "sterilize" the bottle.

What did the humoral model of disease propose as the cause for cholera?

The humoral model of disease proposed that disease was caused by an
imbalance in one or more of four "humors" or fluids in the body:
blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.
Physicians would decide on a treatment based on their interpretation
of the imbalance. Some treatments even included "blood letting" where
they would either cut the person and allow them to bleed for a short
time or apply leaches to them to remove some blood.

What is portal of entry for cholera infection?

Portal of entry for cholera is your mouth. Transmission of cholera occurs by fecal oral route.

How does Cholera get its name?

The name of the disease comes from a Greek word meaning "flow of bile."

What are scurvy and cholera?

Both are diseases, however they are very different. Scurvy is caused by vitamin C deficiency, whereas Cholera is caused by pathogenic bacteria.

Scurvy can cause weakness, pale skin, tender gums, sunken eyes, muscle pain, internal bleeding, and if untreated, death.

Cholera principally lives in the gut, and causes diarrhea. It is usually transmitted via human wastes.

What is cholera caused by?

the patient loses massive quantities of fluid and electrolytes, which is associated with abdominal muscle cramps, vomiting, fever, and watery diarrhea. The diarrhea can be so profuse that a person can lose 10 to 15 litres of fluid during the infection. Which may result in death.