Blood, mucus or pus in the stool. Nausea or vomiting. Muscle aches or pain. Travel to foreign countries. Immerse soiled clothes and bedclothes in covered buckets of soap and water until they can be boiled.
Diagnosis is aided by knowledge of outbreaks and in endemic areas.
Increase fluid intake. Hospital care will include isolation and intravenous fluid supplements. Don't use paregoric preparations or other antidiarrhea drugs unless they are prescribed. Activity Bed rest is necessary, except for trips to the bathroom, until fever, diarrhea and other symptoms have been gone for at least 3 days. The legs should be exercised regularly in bed.