The possibility of gastroenteritiswith hundreds of cases of the disease bothering about the last 12 days its residents and holidaymakers Tijiathe laboratories and expert scientists are already being investigated National Public Health Organization (EDY)whose scales went from Friday to the island and received clinically and environmental samples.

As he stated in SKAI or Theodora PsaltopoulouProfessor of Epidemiology at EKPA, gastroenteritis may be due to viruses, which is much more common and passes much lighter, as well as to bacteria. “Here the EDYY step has collected the samples, has done the research and the epidemiological study, so we will see in the coming days what is the cause. ” he underlined.

“It seems that the previous days has begun and probably now has a recession. Everyone can get sick, but heavier children will get children, pregnant, older people with serious diseases, which is why these people should be more careful. In the case of gastroenteritis we stop the food, moisturize, and gradually when we get better we start food, such as toasts, rice, chicken. We are trying to keep away from others who are patients, because we may also have secondary transmission from human to person ”, Mrs Psaltopoulou added to end up saying:

“Usually the cause is a specific source (water or food). If after 1-2 days we continue to have serious symptomatology with gastrointestinal symptoms, a fever that does not go down, we certainly need to go to the hospital. “

Mayorkin: usual suspect a mental – no antiseptics catch him

Talking to SKAI 100.3the Gikas Mayorkin He emphasized for his part that this is one of the epidemic outbreaks in the summer, due to a viral agent.

“It is common in the summer where there is a crowding and a gastrointestinal gerver is introduced to see such phenomena. The most likely candidate is a mental, that is, a virus that is easily transmitted and has a characteristic, that common antiseptics do not catch it and needs good hand washing. Its symptoms can keep up to 4-5 days’, said.