There are some differences between gastrointestinal cold and gastroenteritis in terms of etiology, clinical manifestations and treatment.
1. Etiology: gastrointestinal cold is mainly caused by viral infection; gastroenteritis can be caused by viral infection, but also by bacterial and parasitic infections, drugs, alcoholism and other non-infectious factors can also be caused.
2. Clinical manifestations: Gastrointestinal flu can be manifested as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever and other symptoms, and can also be accompanied by nasal congestion, runny nose, headache and other cold symptoms; gastroenteritis can be manifested as abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms, usually not accompanied by cold symptoms.
3. Treatment: gastrointestinal cold can use ribavirin antiviral treatment, if necessary, the use of montelukast to stop diarrhea, ibuprofen dispersible tablets can alleviate the patient’s nasal congestion, runny nose; bacterial infections caused by gastroenteritis can be used as prescribed by the use of ciprofloxacin and other antibiotic treatment, severe pain can also take scopolamine treatment.
Patients with symptoms of gastrointestinal flu or gastroenteritis are advised to go to the hospital and ask the doctor to make a judgment. Drugs need to be used under the guidance of a professional physician, do not self-medicate arbitrarily.