Question: Does A bacterial infection in my intestine or gastroenteritis which cause missed periods? I had blood clots in my bowl movements and now i have missed a period is that normal?
Answer: They do not sound related. "Blood clots" sounds like hemerrhoids. A missed period could be anything from pregnancy to just not ovulating this month. do a pregnancy test.
Question: Help! stomach flu or bacterial infection? I hear so many people say that the stomach flu (norovirus) is not really a flu but is a bacterial infection (gastroenteritis). But if that is the case, why do so many pass it onto one another in a community. I don't think infections are contagious so that would mean that stomach flus are correct. Right?
Answer: The stomache flu is classically the norovirus. The term Gastroenteritis actually means inflammation or infection of the GI tract, bacteria tend to evoke this type of response from the body more so than viruses, thus it tends to me more commonly used to describe a bacterial problem.
Bacterial infections tend not to be contagious. Viruses, such as the norovirus are. So yes, you are right in saying that the stomache flu is a viral not bacterial
