Gastroenteritis |
Stomach Flu; Viral Gastroenteritis |
Gastroenteritis involves diarrhea or vomitting, with noninflammatory infection of the upper small bowel, or inflammatory infection of the colon, both part of the gastrointestinal tract.[1][2][3][4] Usually this is caused by an infection,[2] but this is not always the case. It usually is of acute onset, normally lasting less than 10 days and self-limiting. Sometimes it is referred to simply as 'gastro'. It is often called the stomach flu or gastric flu even though it is not related to influe ...
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Resources
- Adenovirus (Nemours Foundation)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Clean Your Hands: A Simple Way to Prevent Infection (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Gastroenteritis (National Institutes of Health)
- Cruise Ships and Gastrointestinal Illness: How to Keep the Bug at Bay (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Cruising with Confidence (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
- Dehydration (Nemours Foundation)
- Foodborne Illness (National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases)
- Gastroenteritis (Cleveland Clinic)
- Gastroenteritis (Cleveland Clinic)
- Gastroenteritis (MayoClinic)
- Gastroenteritis (Medline Plus)
- Gastroenteritis as a Side Effect of Drugs (Merck & Co., Inc.)
- Gastroenteritis: First Aid (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Gastrointestinal Infections and Diarrhea (Nemours Foundation)
- Gastrointestinal Infections and Diarrhea (Nemours Foundation)
- Microorganisms That Cause Gastroenteritis (Merck & Co., Inc.)
- National Center for Infectious Diseases
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- Norovirus: Food Handlers (National Center for Infectious Diseases)
- Norovirus: Q&A (National Center for Infectious Diseases)
- Preventing Dehydration from Diarrhea (American Medical Association)
- Researchers Identify Cause of Diarrheal Illness in Nursing Homes (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
- Rotavirus (Nemours Foundation)
- Stool Tests (Nemours Foundation)
- Viral Gastroenteritis (National Center for Infectious Diseases)
- Viral Gastroenteritis (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
- Viral gastroenteritis (Google Health)
- Vomiting (Nemours Foundation)

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