Is the Stomach Flu Contagious?

Is the Stomach Flu Contagious?

👤by MedicineNet.com 0 comments 🕔Monday, September 26th, 2016

Abdominal pain is one symptom of the stomach flu, however, there are a variety of causes of abdominal pain such that includes

indigestion after eating, gallstones and gallbladder inflammation, pregnancy, gas, IBD (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease), ulcers, and gastritis.

What is the stomach flu?

Stomach flu or gastroenteritis is a general term for a number of inflammatory problems that occur in the gastrointestinal tract. Gastroenteritis is a better term because when some individuals use the term "stomach flu," they get the term confused with the flu (influenza) and the viruses that cause the flu. Influenza viruses do not cause stomach flu.

Gastroenteritis most commonly causes symptoms of:

Diarrhea Nausea Vomiting Abdominal pain

Other symptoms may include the following:

Fever Headache Body aches Dehydration

Because stomach flu means gastroenteritis and, because when the term "stomach flu" is used, the readers usually mean acute gastroenteritis caused by viruses (mainly Norovirus), the emphasis of this article will be on Norovirus- caused gastroenteritis although other causes will be mentioned.

Is the stomach flu contagious?

Unfortunately, there are many causes of stomach flu. The most common causes are contagious gastroenteritis are

viruses (for example, Norovirus, Adenovirus and others), bacteria (for example, Salmonella, Shigella, E. coli and others), and parasites (for example Giardia lambia, Cryptosporidium, and others).

However, there are many other causes of gastroenteritis that are not contagious such as:

Food allergies Antibiotics Toxins

Many medications list gastroenteritis is a common side effect.

Medically Reviewed by a Doctor on 9/26/2016

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