Wilderness-acquired diarrhea is a variety of traveler's diarrhea in which backpackers and other outdoor enthusiasts are affected. Potential sources are...
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percent in 1520 alone. Wilderness diarrhea, also called wilderness-acquired diarrhea (WAD) or backcountry diarrhea, refers to diarrhea among backpackers,...
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Reed Tropical Medicine Course – Silver Spring, Maryland, US Wilderness acquired diarrhea Expedition medicine Supercourse on Travel Medicine Archived 2006-09-01...
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Portable water purification (category Wilderness)
backpackers, although this has created some controversy. (See wilderness acquired diarrhea.) In Hawaii and other tropical areas, Leptospira spp. are another...
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Firelighting Hammock camping Outdoor cooking Overlanding Swag Tarp tent Wilderness-acquired diarrhea Frank A. Bates, Camping and camp cooking (Boston: The Ball Publishing...
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Giardiasis (redirect from Backpacker's diarrhea)
(February 2001). "Practice guidelines for the management of infectious diarrhea" (PDF). Clinical Infectious Diseases. 32 (3): 331–51. doi:10.1086/318514...
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Survival skills (redirect from Wilderness survival)
backpacking, horseback riding, fishing, and hunting all require basic wilderness survival skills, especially to handle emergencies. Individuals who practice...
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Hypovolemic shock, also known as low volume shock, may be from bleeding, diarrhea, or vomiting. Cardiogenic shock may be due to a heart attack or cardiac...
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for their fast and advanced nature. Symptoms of Cholera include nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting which contribute to dehydration, erratic heartbeat, and shriveled...
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preserve that was jointly acquired by the Guilford County Open Space Program and the State of North Carolina. The preserve was acquired in two parts, the Taylor...
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and the right wing of the V. However, Lee, incapacitated in his tent by diarrhea, could not effect the attack he hoped to make. Grant realized the situation...
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are mildly irritating to the skin or stomach, and may sometimes cause diarrhea and vomiting if eaten, they rarely cause serious medical problems. Sunflowers...
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caused either by inadequate oxygenation of muscle or lack of water or salt. Diarrhea. Diving disorders. Drowning, including related asphyxia. Dysmenorrhea....
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much of the Mexico City battle, he was in the sick tent, plagued by acute diarrhea. Pierce remained in command of his brigade during the three-month occupation...
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Michalak's body. Michalak continued to suffer from prolonged bouts of diarrhea, headaches, blackouts, and continued weight loss, eventually seeking help...
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ingestion can include copious vomiting (e.g., from eating cigar butts) or diarrhea. The symptoms of hydrocarbon mixture indigestion can be abdominal pain...
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Snakebite (category Wilderness medical emergencies)
may contribute to other symptoms, and may include nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, vertigo, fainting, tachycardia, and cold, clammy skin. Snake bites can...
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capitalize on the situation. Lee suddenly suffered a debilitating attack of diarrhea and was forced to remain in his tent, bedridden. Unfortunately, he had...
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cardiovascular diseases, 204.63 by neoplasms and 100.66 by neurological disorders. Diarrhea, lower respiratory, and other common infections were ranked sixth overall...
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at Savannah, Georgia, and taken to Annapolis where he died of chronic diarrhea on December 20, 1864. Private Peter Losey (no. 287) was buried at U. S...
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Snake venom (category Wilderness medical emergencies)
one to three hours great prostration, accompanied by vomiting, and often diarrhea, sets in. Cold, clammy perspiration is usual. The pulse becomes extremely...
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internees for diseases such as measles, chickenpox, whooping cough, and diarrhea. Treatment facilities were often the barracks, which did not include running...
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outfit wagons, buy livestock, and assemble supplies to start over in a wilderness that was described as having poor prospects. A year after landing, the...
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memory – how it is acquired, and how it is lost. "Arctic Oil" 12/05/1979 (Wed) (12/05/1979 (Wed)) 07 North America's last great wilderness area, Lancaster...
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causes of death, were, in order, croup, winter fever, cholera, hives, diarrhea, consumption and accidents. More than half of all deaths were infants under...
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(vertigo, weakness, sleepiness, difficulties in moving), others local (diarrhea, constipation, and so on). Nevertheless, they advise persevering, insisting...
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disease: "fever, cough, muscle pain, and then nausea, and/or vomiting, and diarrhea". Unexpected dimming of Betelgeuse is explained by NASA as a "traumatic...
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became contaminated by human wastes. Cholera causes vomiting and severe diarrhea, and in places where human wastes contaminate water supplies the causal...
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disease: "fever, cough, muscle pain, and then nausea, and/or vomiting, and diarrhea". Unexpected dimming of Betelgeuse is explained by NASA as a "traumatic...
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