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“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

Winston Churchill, (1874 – 1965), English politician.  

Viral Gastroenteritis

In modern society bacterial agents for gastrointestinal infection remain common because of faulty handling of food, but viral origin is most of the time the rule.

It is transmitted simply by inspired air, and a facemask serves little to block those tiny particles.

The covid was an exception forming much bigger conglomerates.

Thus, it becomes crucial to diagnose correctly at every moment such an event.

At first infection activates the sympathetic pendant (SP) of the neuro-vegetative system, causing sleeplessness, a third sector in bowels and impossibility to empty those.

Later, follows activation of the parasympathetic one (PP), with intestinal spasms and diarrhea.

At first appetite goes up with a ghrelin spurt, then it abates falling down to disgust, Leptin going up.

Hence, SP activates  Ghrelin, while PP, Leptin.