Re: Appendicitis and Dientamoeba.fragilis: Any link?

do we need to have medicines for D. fragilis at home ?

what do you do if you suddenly get acute appendicitis (Appendicitis)?

you are taken to hospital, in acute pain you tell doctors it could be D. fragilis and ask them to give you treatment. Doctors smile to you and tells you are in best hands, no need to worry. Soon you are in full anesthesia. And you wake up with the app removed :-)

"Blastocystis hominis—an emerging and imitating cause of acute abdomen in children"

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022346806002995


"Two children aged 12 and 11 years with a similar history of abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and fever with abdominal tenderness, and muscle guarding at the right lower quadrant for few days were admitted to our hospital. They subsequently developed diarrhea but without clinical relief. Just before the decision of laparotomy, both patients were diagnosed as having Blastocystis hominis infection with light microscopic examination of the stools and were treated uneventfully with the appropriate Antibiotics ."


According to a doctor I talked with few labs look for Blastocystis, and few are good at finding it. D. fragilis also need good lab to find it.

And what would doctors tell you if you by independent lab found Blastocystis or D. fragilis just after removing your appendix ? that there was no connection?

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