Streptococcus infection

Disease caused by streptococci. The main symptoms are fever and sore throat, but can also appear tiny and red rashes in the body, hands and feet. The tongue is the appearance of a strawberry with small red bubbles protruding.

Treatment

It is taken antibiotics for 10 or 14 days. The yields fever within 1 to 3 days. However, stopping the use of drugs, the fever reappears. Moreover, taking the form of unregulated drugs can cause the appearance of other problems such as inflammation of the kidneys (nephritis) and rheumatic fever.

Care should be taken at home.

Can infect family. While everyone does not heal, it may be that the disease strikes again.

Prevention

The infection caused by Streptococcus suis, one animal disease, is common among pigs. Spreads by contact between sick animals noses or droplets of saliva released within walking distance. In most cases, the pigs infected with Streptococcus suis not bear any symptoms of the disease. People become infected with streptococcus suisatravés direct contact with infected pigs or handling raw pork infected, a common cause.

Once the bacterium Streptococcus suis is entering the body through skin wounds or cuts, can cause sepsis and meningitis or less common, but also possible, endocarditis, arthritis, and bronchitis. The deafness, which may prove to be permanent, it is also one of the complications derived features of Streptococcus suis infection. We pay special attention to contact you live hogs, raw or derived from pork.

According to the World Health Organization, and cook the pork eliminates germs that it may exist. Hence, the public should not worry too much with streptococcus suis infection via consumption of pork. People should, instead, observe environmental and personal hygiene, avoid contact with sick pigs, with their carcasses or excrement and remember to wash your hands thoroughly after contact with pigs. All these precautions combined dramatically reduce the risk of infection by Streptococcus suis