My Daughter has Amoebiasis

One morning, my daughter has fever and stomach pain.  I thought it is just a fever due to weather condition here.  So she take tempra for her fever then after a while she loose bowel. The fever goes down in the afternoon so I thought that everything is ok.  I also give her dicycloverine for stomach pain. But at the evening she has heavy stomach pain that she couldn’t sleep and at the same time loose bowel so I worry so my husband go to the laboratory  for stool examination and find out that there is protozoa in her bowel. The doctor prescribed metronidazole for amoebasis and cotrimoxazole for antibacterial to be taken for 7 to 10 days. And also the doctor advised her to drink distilled water or boiled water. After two days of treatment she seems to be okay but still she has to take her medicine.

Amoebiasis is caused by parasites such as Entamoeba histolytica when indigested through contaminated water or food.  Symptoms of amoebiasis are diarrhea, stomach pain or stomach cramps, nausea and fever. As of now there is no vaccine available for amoebiasis so it is important to make sure that you drink bottled water when traveled and a cleaned food.