Intercurrent illness
As intercurrent diseases (Crohn intercurrens) are diseases referred that during the treatment (chronic) another disease occur without having a causal connection with the underlying disease. These include, for example, acute injuries or infections such as flu , chickenpox , salmonellosis and streptococcal angina .
The insurance companies describe illnesses that occur acutely during an inpatient hospital stay and must be treated immediately as intercurrent illnesses. These include, for example, flu-like infections or appendicitis , which are acute and occur in the hospital, but have nothing to do with the underlying disease that caused the hospital stay.
therapy
Three principles are available for the treatment of intercurrent diseases:
- Wait: in the case of non-stressful additional illnesses or injuries,
- Repeat "chronic agents": e.g. B. in exacerbations of the underlying disease and
- specific medicines for the acute illness that has occurred.
For the chronic disease, it must be taken into account that any intercurrent disease can influence it. After the acute illness has healed, the treatment of the chronic illness must therefore be checked again.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Intercurrent illnesses at: Krankenkassen-register.de
literature
- Gerhard Bleul: Intercurrent illnesses. In: Gerhard Bleul (Hrsg.): Further education homeopathy. Volume D: Special Forms of Disease. Sonntag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8304-9049-6 .