How to determine whether acute enteritis is bacterial or viral

To determine whether acute enteritis is bacterial or viral, you can choose blood routine, stool routine, etiology examination and other methods.

1. Blood

routine examination items include white blood cell count, neutrophil count, lymphocyte ratio, etc., white blood cell and neutrophil count will increase significantly when bacterial infection occurs, and lymphocyte ratio may increase when viral infection occurs.

2. Stool routine

virus infection will make stool appear yellow and watery, without pus cells and red blood cells. Bacterial infection is easy to cause stool to present watery stool, purulent blood stool, etc.

3. Etiological examination

Etiological examination is mainly to culture and monitor the stool of the patient to determine whether the human body is infected with bacteria or virus.