Symptoms:

Common symptoms attributed to B. hominis infection include diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and nausea.  In more acute cases, profuse watery diarrhea and fever may occur. Other possible associated symptoms include fatigue, anorexia, flatulence, and other gastrointestinal effects. It may or may not be a cause of “traveller’s diarrhea.” Some other symptoms reported are an itchy anus (common with several types of parasitic infections,) the presence of white blood cells in feces, rectal bleeding, increase in the number of eosinophils (a type of white blood cells), enlarged liver and / or spleen, rashes, itching, and joint pains and swelling.  Patients with B. hominis infection develop a chronic itchy, non-healing red rash which waxes and wanes with gastrointestinal symptoms.  These lesions do not respond to topical antibacterial treatment or hydrocortisone treatment.