Frequent, watery diarrhea (often foul-smelling, green or brown) Frequent vomiting. Fever. Abdominal pain.
The most common symptoms of rotavirus are severe watery diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and/or abdominal pain. Symptoms usually start about two days after a person is exposed to rotavirus. Vomiting and watery diarrhea can last three to eight days.
Gastroenteritis caused by the Rotavirus
Symptoms include severe vomiting and severe watery diarrhea. Stools will often have a milky muddy water color which can be lemon yellow to milky white with a strong smell. The infection may be accompanied with a high-grade fever.
Rotavirus is a common cause of gastroenteritis and can result in symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea. Typically, a person will experience these symptoms for about 3–8 days. Rotavirus infection affects the gastrointestinal tract and is a common cause of viral gastroenteritis.
Spread by faecal-oral transmission, rotavirus infection in adults typically manifests with nausea, malaise, headache, abdominal cramping, diarrhoea, and fever. Infection can also be symptomless.
In healthy adults, a rotavirus infection may cause only mild signs and symptoms or none at all.
Yellow stool may indicate a malabsorption disorder caused by a parasite, illness, or disease. Malabsorption of fat can lead to an increased fat content in stools, which can be pale, large, foul-smelling, and loose.
Yellow/Pale Brown/Grey: Bright yellow diarrhea can signify a condition known as Giardiasis (see sidebar). Stool that is yellow or pale can also result from reduced production of bile salts, since a normal, brown-coloured stool acquires its hue from breaking down bile.
Yellow diarrhea can mean several things. It could be caused by a problem with one of your digestive organs, including your liver, gallbladder, or pancreas. It could also be caused by a germ, like a bacteria or virus, or a parasite.
There is no specific medicine to treat rotavirus infection, but your doctor may recommend medicine to treat the symptoms. Antibiotics will not help because they fight bacteria not viruses. Since rotavirus disease can cause severe vomiting and diarrhea, it can lead to dehydration (loss of body fluids).
Anyone caring for small children should know the symptoms of rotavirus, including: Frequent, watery diarrhea (often foul-smelling, green or brown)
People who are infected with rotavirus shed the virus in their stool (poop). This is how the virus gets into the environment and can infect other people. People shed rotavirus the most, and are more likely to infect others, both when they have symptoms and during the first three days after they recover.
Norovirus: This highly contagious virus can cause vomiting and diarrhea as well as green-colored stools and is spread easily between people.
The incubation for norovirus is 12–48 hours, while signs of rotavirus arise at two days. 45. Duration of symptoms: Norovirus symptoms don't last as long, about one to three days; whereas rotavirus infections linger longer, for about three to eight days. 45.
There's not much difference when it comes to norovirus, rotavirus and astrovirus. Clinically, their symptoms are the same and you can't tell the difference between them unless you run a test. However, rotavirus and astrovirus are more common in children and norovirus is more common in adults.
It is not uncommon for your poop to appear yellow, which can be caused by a variety of conditions: bacterial infections, digestive disorders, and parasites.
Most people experience abdominal or stomach pain from time to time, but when abdominal pain is accompanied by yellow bowel movements, this can indicate a bile drainage disorder. Diseases of the liver, the bile ducts, or the pancreas can cause these symptoms: Light, clay-colored stool.
Yellow Poop
Fat absorption can be disrupted by parasites, illnesses or congenital diseases causing inflammation in the pancreas. Yellow poop is usually a sign of a medical problem that needs attention. If your yellow stool is present for more than two days, contact your doctor.
There's no specific treatment for a rotavirus infection. Antibiotics and antivirals won't help a rotavirus infection. Usually, the infection resolves within three to seven days.
Rotavirus diarrhea is usually very characteristic: green, profuse, and smelling slightly of sulfur (or “rotten eggs”). The diarrhea can last even up to several weeks, until the body begins to eliminate the virus and restore the lining of the small intestine.
Why Rotavirus May Be Mild. Adults also do not usually experience severe effects of the infection. Adults weigh more than very young children, so the impact of the infection—loss of fluids, for example—is not as substantial to a healthy adult's overall health as it is for a very young child.