Infectology
After conducting a comprehensive diagnosis and establishing a diagnosis, the infectious disease specialist prescribes a treatment regimen, which is selected strictly individually for each patient and depends on the form and stage of the identified disease.
A specialist who represents this area of medicine is an infectious disease specialist.
Symptoms that require you to see an infectious disease specialist:
- weakness, malaise;
- fever;
- headache;
- sleep disturbance;
- damage to the integrity of the mucous membranes (abscesses, ulcers);
- appearance of rash elements on the skin;
- enlarged lymph nodes;
- redness of the skin, swelling, itching;
- muscle and joint pain;
- symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders;
- yellowing of the skin and sclera;
- appearance of blood in the stool.
Diseases that are studied by infectology:
- flu;
- rhinovirus infections;
- chickenpox smallpox;
- diphtheria;
- scarlet fever;
- whooping cough;
- measles;
- encephalitis;
- meningitis;
- mumps;
- mycoplasmosis;
- chlamydia;
- salmonellosis;
- botulism;
- typhoid fever;
- hepatitis (A, D, B, C, E, F, G);
- trematodosis;
- giardiasis;
- herpes;
- cholera;
- brucellosis;
- rabies, etc.
Diagnostics and treatment in infectology
For an accurate diagnosis, the patient must undergo the following tests:
- blood, urine and stool tests;
- taking smears for flora;
- PCR diagnostics;
- enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay of blood;
- sputum analysis to determine the causative agent of the disease;
- diagnostics hepatitis;
- ultrasound;
- ECG;
- syphilis and HIV test.
After conducting a comprehensive diagnosis and establishing a diagnosis, the infectious disease specialist prescribes a treatment regimen, which is selected strictly individually for each patient and depends on the form and stage of the identified disease.
Patient guide:
An infectologist is a doctor whose activities are aimed at diagnosing, treating and preventing infectious diseases. This doctor is also responsible for regular vaccination and revaccination of children and adults against a number of diseases.
An infectologist is a doctor who diagnoses, treats and prevents infectious diseases.
There are a number of symptoms and symptom complexes that can indicate the presence of an infectious disease in one way or another. Timely seeking help, immediate diagnosis and treatment of such diseases are very important, since this can preserve a person's health and life, as well as prevent the spread of infection among the population.
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