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Diseases in Focus Chapter 25 Female, age 19 Select all conditions that could reasonably apply to your patient. View Available Hint(s) Review MEDICAL HISTORY (Hx) shigellosis The patient is a female, age 19. She was admitted to the hospital for prolonged diarrhea. The patient is an anthropology major attending school in Madison, Wl. She is in a monogamous relationship and is sexually active She is allergic to wasp and bee venom. She has a family history of Alzheimer's disease. She lives with one roommate in student housing. She does not own any pets herself; however, she often cares for her roommate's turtle (a red-eared slider). Over her most recent spring break she took several short trips. First, she and her boyfriend went camping in the woods for a night. A few days later, she and her roommate spent 6 days in Cancun, Mexico, with several other friends. During the last few days of her trip, she began to feel unusually tired and occasionally nauseous, with abdominal cramping and increased flatulence. Following her return to the US, the frequency of her bowel movements increased from roughly once every day, to an average of four times a day. In addition, her bowel movements have become loose off-colored (pale), and occasionally watery. She has lost roughly 5 lbs since returning from her trip. Neither her roommate nor boyfriend has shown any signs of illness. salmonellosis typhoid fever cholera or noncholera Vibrio infection a form of bacterial gastroenteritis or bacterial-associated diarrhea Helicobacter peptic ulcer disease mumps a form of hepatitis viral gastroenteritis mycotoxin or aflatoxin poisoning giardiasis cryptosporidiosis Cyclospora diarrheal infection Click here to access Diseases in Focus Tables 25.2, 25.3 and 25.4, and 25.5. amoebic dysentery hydatid disease nematode infection Submit Previous Answers Request Answer

Review possible diagnoses

Now that you have considered the evidence at hand, you should start to build a hypothesis about what disease your patient has. In the beginning of your diagnostic process you should try to think broadly and consider any and all reasonable possibilities. You can then narrow down these possibilities by performing diagnostics that can support or refute your hypothesis.

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Possible conditions applicable to this patient according to.following symptoms presented by her - prolonged diarrhea, abdominal cramping, nausea, tiredness, increased flatulence, weight loss, increased frequency of bowel.

History -she recently went to a trip.

Possible diagnosis is due to food poisoning, most common cause being bacterial or viral infections.

Cause of infection is contaminated food or water, or uncooked food.

- shigellosis

-salmonellosis

- cholera or nocholera infection

- a form of gastroenteritis or bacteral associated diarrhea

- viral gastroenteritis

- giardiasis

- cyclospora diarrheal infection

- amoebic dysentry

- hydatid disease.