CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC -Well being authorities are reporting a 14 p.c improve in circumstances of gastroenteritis as in comparison with the earlier week. They warn that the sickness has impacted kids greater than adults in earlier weeks.
In a video broadcast, Medical Surveillance Officer Dr. Dana Gomez mentioned extra folks had been presenting with signs at healthcare services and that the Ministry of Well being and Wellness has recorded a 14 p.c case improve in comparison with the earlier week. She didn’t present figures.
“Many of the affected people expertise sudden onset of vomiting and diarrhea, which often resolve with remedy of the symptom. Acute gastroenteritis is an inflation of the abdomen and intestines and might be brought on by viruses, micro organism, parasites, chemical substances or treatment.”
She warned that the “very contagious” pressure of the virus, additionally referred to as “the abdomen flu most prevalent throughout the winter season, has been circulating and has been the reason for many circumstances of gastroenteritis globally.”
She urges the general public to take the mandatory steps to stop the unfold of the virus, together with practising good hand hygiene by washing arms continuously and totally with cleaning soap and water, particularly after vomiting, a bowel motion, and earlier than dealing with meals.
Dr. Gomez urged folks with gastroenteritis to keep away from colleges and locations of employment and search fast medical consideration.
“The ministry additionally needs to remind the general public we’re at the moment within the flu season and individuals could expertise respiratory signs,” she mentioned, including that a number of influenza viruses, together with sort A, “have been remoted” and that the general public ought to observe the well being necessities to stop the unfold.
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