The accompanying symptoms

The symptoms that accompany diarrhea and fever are usually other general symptoms. For example, diarrhea is often accompanied by abdominal pain and flatulence. The abdominal pain can be so severe that stomach and abdominal cramps develop.

Headaches can also occur, especially if the infection means that not enough fluid is absorbed. Fever also often leads to tiredness, exhaustion and aching limbs. Pain in the limbs in combination with fever is a typical symptom of infectious diseases caused by bacteria or viruses.

Diarrhea and fever and additional aching limbs are often caused by gastroenteritis (inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract) or gastroenteritis. In most cases the disease heals on its own after a few days. The most important therapy is the adequate intake of fluids, since a lot of water is lost through diarrhoea.

You can find more information about gastroenteritis here. Headaches can be triggered by various mechanisms in diarrhea and fever. Once you have caught a pathogen that causes diarrhea and fever, the whole body is usually busy with the immune defense against this pathogen.

This leads to complaints such as tiredness, exhaustion and poor performance, which are also accompanied by headaches. Especially in diarrheal diseases, headaches can be aggravated by another mechanism: Affected persons lose a particularly large amount of fluid through liquid bowel movements. In addition, the fever causes additional fluid to be sweated out.

If it is not possible to drink and eat enough water, tea and soup to compensate for this loss of fluid, headaches can also occur. Abdominal pain is a symptom that is very often accompanied by diarrhoea. In infectious diarrhoea, the pain can be localized at a certain point in the abdomen, for example in the stomach area, or it can be unspecifically distributed in the abdominal cavity.It is not uncommon for cramp-like pain to occur, caused by the sudden cramping of the intestinal muscles.

Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases also frequently cause abdominal pain in addition to diarrhea and fever. While the pain in ulcerative colitis can occur in various places, the symptoms in Crohn’s disease often begin in the right lower abdomen. In the case of appendicitis, too, the complaints lie in the lower right abdomen and can be detected by various examination methods.