Infantile Diarrhea

3. Invasive bacterial enteritis.
a dysentery-like dysentery like syndrome that is the
same as that caused by shigellar. shigellar
It is usually abrupt in onset and is characterized
by high fever.
Frequent diarrhea with mucus, pus and blood.
Microscopic findings of stools are leukocytes and
erythrocytes in varying amount.
Other gastrointestinal symptom includes nausea,
vomiting, crampy abdominal pain, tenesmus, tenesmus,
fecal
urgency.
There are sometimes severe systemic toxemia, such
as chills, malaise, hyperpyrexia even convulsion or
infectious shock.
Stool bacterial culture may find the pathogen.