Amoebic Dysentery - Symptoms

The symptoms of amoebic dysentery's can be mild to severe depending on the location of infection. The infection can get to be life threatening in an immunocompromised individual (eg AIDS/HIV suffers) or a post transplant patient.

Mild early symptoms

Weight loss
Anaemia
Indigestion
Intermittent diarrhoea with foul-smelling stool that may be preceded by constipation.
Dehydration
Blood and mucus in the stool.
Gas and Abdominal Bloating
Abdominal cramps and tenderness
Fever
Fatigue
Chills

The disease can sometimes become complicated if the amoebae break through the intestinal wall and the lining called peritoneum. This causes perforation and leads to

Peritonitis, meaning the inflammation of the peritoneum.

The amoebae may be then carried in the blood to the liver resulting in the formation of an abscess that presents the following symptoms

Fever
Chills
Pain in the upper right portion of the abdomen
Nausea
Vomiting
Weight loss
Enlarged liver

References:

Davidson Text Of Medicine (17th Edition)
Oxfords Handbook of medicine

Published on Jun 26, 2014
Last Updated on Jun 26, 2014

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Ted70

I believe that I have had intestinal parasites for over two years but my doctors say no as the stool tests always come back negative. One particular test I submitted a vial with two cysts and no mention of this in the lab report. My wife confirmed that she saw me put the cysts in the test vial. [The cysts, which I am passing almost daily are about 1/2" diameter, round or oblong, prickly rough exterior, soft sticky or mushy interior. On the exterior there are two "eyes"-usually one or both still intact-and two teeth like objects projecting beneath the "eyes".] The doctor had me bring one of these cysts in to her-later that same day as luck would have it-and she took it to the lab. Late that same afternoon I received a phone call informing me that I had a bacterial infection. I took metronidazole 500mg 3xday for 10 days. She said the cysts were "unprocessed food". I gradually felt better then about 5 days later the cysts in my stool returned. Very easy to spot as they would always float on the water in the toilet. Then I passed several that were still attached to the stool. That's when I really got serious about careful observance of each and every bowel movement. I also noticed the shape and identifying similarities of each piece of stool (worms?). A head with two "eyes" and yes a mouth partially open on some of them. In may I passed a large worm with a cyst still attached by membrane to its mouth. I have photos taken by me with my cheap camera....some three hundred such photos on my computer. Nobody wants to see them. I'm told that I have IBS and a vivid imagination! I am about ready to give up and put myself in God's hands. The pain and suffering is more than I can handle although it is said that God never gives us more than we can handle.

Advancells

Amoebic Dysentery is a curse on mankind. I had suffered with it two years back and I can still recall those terrible days and I was almost dead and tired. Finally, I recovered after taking some Ayurvedic medicines which my aunt suggested. I lost about 15 kilos in 10 days of this ailment. Thank God, I finally recovered. I still believe that Ayurvedic medicines are the best.

jo1957

my son has rheumatoid arthritis and had arthrotomy of the hips. he had amoebiasis on his 3rd day of stay in the hospital. he was treated with metronidazole 500 mg 3x/day for a week. then the dysentery recurred anout 5 days after getting out of the hosp, and this time gave him fevers and fatigue. he had to be confined again and he was back to metronidazole along with rifaximin for another week. this gave him so many side effects, he could not sleep, headaches, cramps, joint pains all over - he was in distress! he was well for a week, though. yesterday, he had abdominal cramps again and he passed stool around 3 times. it was not watery and i suspected his low fat milk was the culprit. today he passed stool and to my aghast, there was mucus [again!]i dont know what to do. why is this? we complete his medication, wash our hands, he drinks distilled water etc. he is 18 years old around 110 lbs 5'7". last year in february, he had the 1st bout of amoebiasis and it recurred only this year. why is this so? i am afraid metronidazole will worsen again his arthritis. he can hardly walk so its really hard for him to have bouts of dysentery like this. please help. please please

raviv

my name is himanshu i am suffring from amoboisis last 5 month my age is 27 please help

Rupendra16

Hello respected, Sir... I'm Rupendra, Age-26, Hight-6 feet, Weight-55, suffring from dysentary from last 25 days. My symptoms are smell in passing stool, mucus without blood, chills and fatigue. Weight loss-2kg in 1 month. After treatment it was controlled little but not complete relief. Please suggest me for suitable homeopathy medicine or any other , further treatment.