Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Stomach Flu

The stomach flu is also known as Viral Gastroenteritis. I choose this because I always hear of people having a stomach flu, but I never knew why it happened and how it was caused. This relates to what we've been learning because when you get a stomach flu your stomach, small intestine and large intestine lining is inflamed. My only main questions now are how they get inflamed and what is the main cause of the inflammation.


The main symptoms of viral gastroenteritis are

  • watery diarrhea
  • vomiting

Other symptoms include

  • headache
  • fever
  • chills
  • abdominal pain

Symptoms usually appear within 12 to 48 hours after exposure to a gastroenteritis-causing virus and last for 1 to 3 days. Some viruses cause symptoms that last longer.

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