ACUTE Diarrhea and Skin Symptoms

Acute, sudden onset diarrhea occurring together with skin symptoms like itch, tingling, swelling or rash may be caused by: 

• Childhood viral infections like measles, scarlatina, rubella, chicken pox, infectious mononucleosis
• Food allergies may cause itchy skin and urticaria (a patchy, pinkish, slightly raised bumpy or patchy rash, known as hives) - due to histamine released in the skin.
• Ciguatera fish poisoning after eating big tropical fish, like barracuda (Picture 1), amberjack, grouper, snapper, sturgeon, king mackerel or moray eel that have accumulated ciguatoxin from reef algae, mainly present in the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Bahamas, Hawaii, Indonesia, Micronesia or Australia (1). Symptoms – diarrhea, dizziness, lips or skin tingling and reversal of hot and cold sensation – may start from few minutes to 30 hours after fish ingesting, may last from several days to years (ciguatoxin is dissolved in body fats and then slowly released) and cease on their own through the time. There is no known diagnostic test and treatment for ciguatera poisoning; prevention is by avoiding eating big tropical fish.
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Staph Skin Infection Pictures

Staph (pronounced ’staff’) skin infection may appear as

• a red bump or pus-filled blister (folliculitis)
• a boil (furuncle)
• infected cystic acne, hidradenitis suppurativa, pilonidal cyst
• a vesicle which may burst and crust over (impetigo)
• erythema (cellulitis)
• skin scalding (staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome)
• an infected wound or burn

Drainage of pus from lesions is common.

What Causes Staph Skin Infections?

Staph infections are mainly caused by bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, and rarely by S. epidermidis, or S. saprophyticus. In staph carriers, S. aureus, lives in the nose and on the skin, and less commonly in the mouth, mammary glands, urinary, intestinal, and upper respiratory tracts (1). Staphylococcal infections usually remain localized at the portal of entry. What is Staphylococcus aureus?

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Folliculitis Pictures

Pictures in this article show staphylococcal folliculitis. Links to pictures of other types of folliculitis.

Picture 1. Staphylococcal folliculitis appears as a red bump, or white pustule.
(source: Samuel Freire da Silva, M.D., Atlasdermatologico)

Picture 2. Staphylococcal folliculitis on the woman’s chest
Click to enlarge >> © Dermnet

Picture 3. Staphylococcal folliculitis on thighs
Click to enlarge >> © Dermnet

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During the initial stages of prostate cancer there are no specific symptoms. Usually, it happens so that a patient is diagnosed with prostate cancer when he is on routine checkup. But sometimes the symptoms also begin to appear and these symptoms are very similar to diseases like gentle prostatic hypertrophy. Frequent urination, to go for urination again and again at night, to face difficulty in passing urine and fail to keep a steady flow of urine, feel pain while passing urine and have blood in the urine are some of these symptoms.

Prostatic gland finds around prostatic urethra and that is why prostate cancer is linked with urinary malfunctioning. Problems in sexual functions can also occur due to prostate cancer. Patients feel pain in achieving erection and ejaculation also turns into a full of pain experience. The sperm duct known as vas deferens stores semen and other fluid in prostatic urethra and some fluids that are produced by prostate gland itself also include in semen.Usually prostate cancer at advance stages spread to other parts of the body and thus causes some other symptoms besides the above mentioned symptoms. To feel continuous pain in upper thighs, lower back and hips may also be a symptom of prostate cancer. Pain in vertebrae (Spine’s bones) pelvis and ribs are some of these pains that occur as symptoms of advanced prostate cancer.

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