As every year, the epidemic of gastroenteritis invites itself for the Christmas holidays. Conviviality and food abundance are the most classic causes.
Gastroenteritis is the “nasty” gift that will perhaps spoil your end-of-year celebrations: consultations have been rising sharply for several days, particularly in the Pays de la Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Great East. And its every end of the year when gastroenteritis threatens France, most doctors’ offices display closed doors! The number of cases remains equal to previous years. In 53% of the cases identified, they are men aged around 25 years.
The “fed up” of our body
This epidemic is the conjunction of 3 phenomena. First an anarchic diet in both quantity and quality. Would you dare to replace the gasoline of the car by oil or alcohol? Yet this is the diet that we reserve for our bodies the last week of the year. So it has no other way to show its fed up than by overflowing and accelerating the evacuation of this excess of fat and ethanol. This explains why gastroenteritis is manifested by sudden diarrhea accompanied by stomach pain and vomiting.
This reaction is increased by the presence of viruses or bacteria which have 2 origins very specific to the Christmas holidays. It is indeed a time of year when the family moves a lot. The polka of our mandibles is accompanied by the waltz of viruses. The uncle from Marseille finds the cousin from Lille to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Brittany with the sister from Strasbourg, thus explaining the extremely rapid contamination of the whole of France.
Microbes like promiscuity
The last cause is our bad habit of storing too long and badly the surplus of uneaten food during Christmas Eve. Microbes love warming and promiscuity to grow. All the conditions required, for example by a turkey with chestnuts cooked on Saturday evening and finished on Tuesday noon.
However, don’t worry, gastroenteritis in the vast majority of cases passes quickly provided you put your digestive tract at rest or offer it drying products such as rice or carrots. Above all, you have to drink lots and lots of water because the only threat to a fragile organism such as that of an infant or an elderly person is acute dehydration, which is sometimes rapid but also, unfortunately, sometimes extremely serious. This is the only problem posed by this epidemic of gastroenteritis. So he Dehydration should be considered an emergency requiring the placement of infusions. For the others, meals and diets at home, without hesitating to consume large quantities of water… and for once also to abuse cola-based sodas, whatever the brand.
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