Transcript You Can`t Sit Still with Beaver Fever

You Can’t Sit Still
with Beaver Fever
Presented By:
Ruth Armstrong
Deanett Shaw
Christine Spanutius
Our Patient:
• Anthropologist
• Just returned from
New Mexico
• Diarrhea
• Abdominal Pain
• Fever
• Protozoal Cysts
• Motile Trophozites
Questions We Would Ask:
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How long has he been experiencing diarrhea?
Are his stools bloody?
Does he have any other symptoms?
Was it possible he drank contaminated water?
Where his living conditions in New Mexico
sanitary?
• Has he been around others with similar
symptoms?
• Is he taking medications?
The Suspects:
• Giardia lamblia
• Dientamoeba
fragilis
• Salmonella
• Cryptosporidium
parvum
• Blastocystis
hominis
Our Bug: Giardia lamblia
Anatomy of Giardia:
Contraction of Giardia:
Contraction of Giardia:
*note beaver swimming in background
Treatment:
• Tnidazole 2 gm
orally
• Nitazoxanicde
500 mg orally
• Flagyl 250 mg
orally
Preventing Re-infection:
• Boil all drinking
water for at least 1
minute, then
refrigerate when
available
• Use a filtering
system
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• If you go down to the woods
today, you're in for a big surprise
-- if you drink contaminated
water.
THE END