Some people believe in a so called “stomach flu”. Actually the stomach flu has much in common with usual kind of flu. As for the doctors they say that stomach flu doesn’t exist, it is not some different kind of flu but common flu with the expressed symptoms of digestive disorder.
As usual it starts in the same way as a common flu. Ill person has high temperature, shiver, headache etc (this period is called incubatory period). Patient can have such symptoms for 1-2 days. But later he has the syndrome of digestive disorder. He loses his appetite, has coated and dry tongue, suffers from sickness, stomachache, sometimes he can vomit, have constipation, diarrhea (as usual it happens seldom and is caused not by a virus of flu but the reason of it can be some other infections) etc. As usual it’s children who can have such symptoms. But adults can suffer from stomach flu as well.
Sometimes ill person can even have symptoms similar to appendicitis. In such case he can be even taken to hospital with the diagnosis of appendicitis. As usual after a period of 1-2 days patient feels better even if his temperature can stay high.
What is the reason of digestive disorder during the flu? Can such symptoms be caused by the virus of flu? Actually the flu is a respiratory illness and if you have symptoms of stomach flu they can be caused by virus, germ or parasite infection. The reason of such symptoms can also be the intoxication of vegetative part of the nervous system.
As for the treatment of stomach flu you need some special medicine which can be prescribed by doctor. But at the same time the illness needs traditional treatment which is usually done in the case of common flu. But the patient should never practice self-treatment, because flu is rather dangerous illness.
