intestinal infection
Bowel-based bacterial sickness
An intestinal infection is a condition caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites that invade the digestive tract, typically causing diarrhea, cramping, nausea, or vomiting.
Common culprits include salmonella, norovirus, and giardia.
Most resolve on their own, though severe cases require medical treatment: The doctor suspected an intestinal infection from contaminated water.
- SalmonellaRod-shaped food-poisoning bacterium
- diarrheaFrequent liquid bowel movements
- traveler's diarrheaIntestinal illness from abroad
- painBodily or emotional distress
- abdominal crampsPainful torso muscle contractions
E. coli · gastroenteritis · stomach bug · wash your hands · dysentery · pathogen · helminth · protozoa · rehydration · stool · stool sample · contaminated water · cramp · contaminated · bloating · gut · gut flora · stomach
- bacterial infectionsanthrax, botulism, cholera, diphtheria, lockjaw
- Gut Infectionsgastroenteritis, food poisoning, dysentery, traveler's diarrhea, enteritis
- bowel disordersIBS, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, colitis, diverticulitis
- dysenterydysentery, amoebic dysentery, shigellosis, scours, bloody stool
- fecal-oral diseasescholera, typhoid, norovirus, rotavirus, shigellosis
intestinal infectionrespiratory infection
Disease of breathing passages
lung infection · urinary tract infection · skin infection · ear infection · sinus infection