Five Days After Infection And Are The Result

The main symptoms are profuse watery diarrhea vomiting and abdominal pain transmission is primarily through contaminated drinking water or food the severity of the diarrhea and vomiting can lead to rapid dehydration and electrolyte imbalance Primary treatment is with oral or intravenous rehydration solutions antibiotics may in certain cases be used cholera is a major cause of death in the world.


The primary symptoms of cholera are profuse diarrhea severe dehydration abdominal pain and fever cholera may also cause vomiting these symptoms start suddenly usually one to five days after infection and are the result of a toxin produced by the vibrio cholerae bacterium that compels profuse amounts of fluid from the blood supply into the small and large intestines.


The chloride and sodium ions create a salt water environment in the small intestines which through osmosis can pull up to six liters of water per day through the intestinal cells creating the massive amounts of diarrhea the host can become rapidly dehydrated if an appropriate mixture of dilute salt water and sugar is not taken to replace the blood's water and salts lost in the diarrhea.