Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Images
Cryptosporidiosis
Symptoms
- Abdominal cramping
- Diarrhea, which is usually watery, large-volume, and many times a day
Malaise - Malnutrition and weight loss (in severe cases)
- Nausea
Signs and tests
- Antibody test to see if Cryptosporidium are in the stool
- Intestinal biopsy (rare)
- Stool examination with special techniques (called AFB staining)
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Stool ova and parasites exam using a microscope
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Cryptosporidium enteritis Treatment
Review Date: 05/25/2010
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in
Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine, Division
of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts
General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical
Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
