University of Saint Louis

Tuguegarao City, Cagayan 3500

SCHOOL OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING – LEVEL III

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

PREDISPOSIONG FACTORS PRECIPITATING FACTORS

• Seasonality
• Poor hygiene • Community outbreaks of specific
• Contaminated Food(s) bacterial gastroenteritis
• The elderly, who have less efficient immune systems, and especially those living in • Infants and young children, who
nursing homes have an immature immune system
• Children in day care, school children, and students living in dormitories • Common in babies and children
• People who are receiving a chemotherapy or radiotherapy and/or young children.
• Travelers • Anyone with a weakened immune
• Medication. system, such as people with
• Animal exposure HIV/AIDS
• Undercooked meat or poultry, unpasteurized dairy products, raw shellfish
• Close contact to person with bacterial gastroenteritis (household, daycare)
• Exposure to freshwater
• Stress

ETIOLOGY

E. hystolytica, Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter

jejuni, E. coli, Norovirus, adenovirus.

Person to person Contaminated food

or water
 University of Saint Louis
Tuguegarao City, Cagayan 3500
SCHOOL OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING – LEVEL III

Ingestion of Pathogens

Direct invasion of Endotoxins are GI Nausea/

bowel wall release Distension Vomiting

Stimulation and F and E

destruction of imbalance
mucosal lining of
the bowel wall
Dehydratio
n
Digestive and
Malnutrition
Secretion of fluid Dry lips, dry
and electrolytes mouth,
in the intestinal Excessive Gas fatigue, and
lumen formation irritability

Increase
peristaltic
movement

Diarrhea