Diagnosis and Types of Infections

DIAGNOSIS AND TYPES OF INFECTIONS

About Infection Whenever a foreign substance enters into our body through nose or mouth or skin contact or even through bodily fluids, it causes harm inside and creates an infection. Though most of the diseases are treatable, preventing it in the first place and also diagnosing at the early stage avoids any complications in the future.

Types of Infection Though there are several types of infections, the most common ones are bacterial, fungal, viral and prion. However, there are several vaccines to prevent certain diseases, and infection tests are available to detect and cure the disease.

Virus Infection Whenever a foreign substance enters into our body through nose or mouth or skin contact or even through bodily fluids, it causes harm inside and creates an infection. Though most of the diseases are treatable, preventing it in the first place and also diagnosing at the early stage avoids any complications in the future.

Example of Infectious Viruses Examples of viruses like rhinovirus or by warts and skin infections, gastroenteritis by the Nova virus are treatable, and another virus which needs special attention in treating them are Zika virus, Dengue fever, Ebola, H1N1 Swine flu to name a few.

One should also keep in mind that antibiotics will not cure the viruses, but it will only increase risks of antibiotic resistance.

Bacterial Infection These single-celled microorganisms thrive well in any kind of environment from extreme heat to intense cold, and there are good bacteria which helps to kill the harmful bacteria. Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infection.

Some of the treatable bacterial infections are food poisoning, eye infections, skin infections, gastritis, pneumonia, sinusitis or urinary tract infections but there are some bacterial infections which need to treat with special care are cholera, diphtheria, bubonic plague, and tuberculosis.

Diagnosis A simple blood test for infection helps to detect what types of viruses has caused the infection and the doctor may prescribe the treatment plan according to the disease. Blood tests result either positive or negative if positive there is bacteria or yeast in your blood and if it is negative then there is no sign of any infection.

However, a disease in your blood is serious which needs immediate medical attention.

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