Colon or coliform bacteria are a type of bacteria found in humans and animals, where these bacteria live in the intestine, which are mostly harmless or lead to diarrhea for a short period.
However, there are some specific species or some strains of the harmful colon bacteria, which may infect the abdomen with bacillus and strong bloody diarrhea. This type or strain of bacteria may result from food or water that is unclean ie polluted, particularly poorly cooked meat and uncooked raw vegetables.
Signs and symptoms of bacterial infection:
- Pain and abdominal cramps.
- The incidence of diarrhea is moderate to severe, which is bloody.
- Nausea and vomiting in some people.
Causes of infection and infection with colon bacteria:
- Contaminated water: By drinking or ingestion of untreated water, whether from sea water or rivers, as well as swimming water, whether in ponds or lakes, causing colon infection.
- By personal contact: Colorectal bacteria may pass from one person to another easily, and specifically when the infected children and adults do not wash their hands well and correctly. In this sense, some restaurant workers may transfer bacteria to food, without washing their hands after entering the toilets. However, there are infections of the colon bacteria recorded in children who go to the animal gardens.
Contaminated foods include:
- Vegetables and fresh fruits, where the waste of farms where the cows are located can contaminate the fields of vegetables and fruits, and the most vegetables are exposed to this pollution lettuce.
- Unpasteurized milk, the coliform bacteria found in the tools used in Aleppo cow, or in the cow’s breasts may be moved to the raw milk.
- Minced meat, usually when slaughtering and processing cattle may move the bacteria in the intestines of the cattle to the fine meat, and here we should point out that the meat is the meat is the flesh between the different meat of animals, and it often contains bacteria that spread throughout the tissues and not only spread Only on the surface as a slice of meat that, in its cooking, may kill bacteria, increasing the risk of infection.
Adults are usually cured of colic infection within a week, while on the other hand older adults and children may have life-threatening kidney failure.
Treatment in general includes: Drink fluids significantly gives the patient the ability to get rid of fatigue and drought, rest, to stay away from drugs that are anti-diarrhea because it affects the digestive system is slow, preventing the body therefore to get rid of toxins.