Indigestion, food poisoning, emotional stress, beans, pancreatic diseases, cancer, laxatives, antacids, caffeine, parasites, colitis, viruses, germs or other microorganisms, drinking unclean water, eating spoiled food, food or chemical allergy, etc. , can cause diarrhea.
Diarrhea patients must drink plenty of water, such as normal saline, carob tea, carrot juice and green drinks (including chlorophyll). If the situation does not improve, or bloody stool, you should see a doctor. You can do an allergy test to see if you are allergic to a certain food.
Family therapy measures
● Drink plenty of water
Diarrhea patients due to a large number of defecation, serious water shortage, electrolyte disorder, at this time must be a lot of water. The rehydration salts containing sodium chloride, potassium chloride, glucose and sodium citrate are ideal choices, because they can replenish glucose and minerals lost in the body and adjust the acid-base balance of potassium-sodium electrolyte and water. Carrot juice, apple juice and watermelon juice can not only supplement water, but also supplement essential vitamins, and are also good supplements. It is a good way to prevent the body from dehydration and collapse due to diarrhea.
● Don't rush to take medicine.
Unless it is diarrhea caused by virus or bacterial infection, or severe diarrhea produces complications, ordinary diarrhea does not need medication, and its symptoms generally do not exceed 48 hours. So don't stop diarrhea with drugs for at least two days, because diarrhea is the way to eliminate toxins in the body. In today's patients with acute diarrhea, doctors often don't encourage the use of antidiarrheal drugs unless there are other situations that need to be controlled urgently. Otherwise, it may be good to release it and speed up recovery.
● Check the drugs used.
Diarrhea may sometimes be related to the drugs you take, such as taking antacids to relieve heartburn. Acid is the most common drug that causes diarrhea. In order to avoid diarrhea associated with heartburn, it is recommended to use an acid generator containing only aluminum hydroxide. In addition to antacids, antibiotics, quinidine and colchicine (anti-gout drugs) may also cause diarrhea. If you suspect that these or other drugs make you diarrhea, you should ask your doctor.
● Let nature take its course
Many people like to treat diarrhea with pectin, acidophilic bacteria, carob powder, barley, bananas, Swiss cheese and various strange foods. These things can inhibit the intestinal tract and delay intestinal peristalsis. But in fact, this is only to prolong the time when the source of the problem stays in the body. What you really need is to excrete the substance that causes diarrhea. The best way is to let nature take its course.
● Stay away from the kitchen.
It is not advisable to cook for your family during diarrhea until the symptoms are eliminated. Remember to wash your hands after going to the toilet to avoid infecting others with germs.
Diet and nutrition therapy
● Drink 3 bowls of rice soup every day.
Rice soup is beneficial to treat diarrhea. Boil with 3 cups of water and half a cup of brown rice for 45 minutes, filter and drink 3 bowls a day. At the same time, eating rice can also help the formation of feces and provide vitamin B.
● Take charcoal tablets.
Take 4 charcoal tablets with water every hour until the situation improves. Use it at night. Do not use with other vitamins or drugs.
Low diet.
During diarrhea, you should eat light liquid food, such as chicken soup or other transparent liquid. Because during diarrhea, your intestines need to have a full rest. When there is no problem with the chicken soup, you can gradually add easily digestible foods such as rice, yogurt (including beneficial bacteria) and lettuce to the drink when the symptoms improve.
● Avoid the following foods
When you have diarrhea, the foods you need to avoid most are beans and cabbage. Other foods that contain a lot of carbohydrates that are not easily absorbed will also aggravate diarrhea. These foods include fat, wheat and gluten-containing foods, such as bread, noodles and other flour products, apples, pears, plums, corn, oats and potatoes. Avoid carbonated drinks, because the gas contained in these drinks may contribute to your diarrhea.
● Supplement minerals.
Take kelp powder capsules, 5 capsules a day, or eat seaweed soup to supplement minerals. Take 100 mg potassium every day to supplement the lost potassium.
● Sterilize with garlic.
You can eat a few grains of garlic for three meals, which can prevent bacterial diarrhea. If you can't or don't want to eat raw garlic, you can take garlic capsules, two capsules each time and three times a day, which also plays a role in sterilization (bacteria and parasites).
● Supplement basic nutrition.
① calcium plus vitamin d
1500mg per day. Replenish the lost calcium and help the formation of feces. 400iu vitamin D every day, to help the absorption of calcium.
② digestive enzymes
Take it with meals. It is rich in pancreatin and helps digestion.
③ Magnesium
1000 mg per day. Help calcium absorption and promote ph acid-base balance.
④ Plantain seeds or oat bran.
4 capsules before going to bed. Helps to form feces.
⑤ Unsaturated fatty acids
Dosage according to the product instructions, help to form feces.
⑥ Vitamin B plus vitamin B 1, nicotine and folic acid.
Vitamin d group was added with vitamin d: 200 mg per day for 2 weeks. Nicotine and folic acid 50 milligrams a day. Because of malabsorption, you may need to ask a doctor to inject vitamin D.
7 vitamin e
400 iu- 1000i3 per day. Protect the colon from damaging the cell membrane.
Use milk as crystals.
Lactose intolerance is one of the important causes of diarrhea. Lactose intolerance may occur in infancy or suddenly appear in adulthood. If you drink milk, then you experience flatulence and abdominal pain, followed by diarrhea, then you may be allergic to lactose. Of course, the best treatment is to avoid foods containing lactose, that is, to stay away from most dairy products, except yogurt and some aged cheese. When you avoid these foods, diarrhea will stop naturally.
● Test method
Because lactose intolerance is dose-related and has the characteristics of sudden onset, how to judge that your diarrhea is related to milk crystals? One way is to make the patient quit dairy products completely 1 to 2 weeks to see if it helps. If stopping drinking milk is really effective, patients will gradually add milk crystals back to their diet. At the same time, when the amount of dairy products reaches a certain level, lactose intolerance will recur. Therefore, if you take no more than this dose of dairy products, you will avoid diarrhea.
● Natural herbs
If you have diarrhea occasionally, try blackberry roots, chamomile tea and raspberry leaves. Medicinal plants can also be added into applesauce, banana, pineapple or wooden dish juice. Take pepper capsules or pepper leaf tea two or three times a day. Ginger tea is good for spasm and abdominal pain. Sliding elm bark is also good, 6 capsules or 3 teaspoons of sliding elm bark powder per 8 ounces of water.
The role of commonly used antidiarrheal drugs
Smecta absorptive antidiarrheal agent
It can adsorb bacteria, viruses, toxins and other substances that cause diarrhea, and has the functions of convergence and protection of intestinal mucosa. It is suitable for any type of diarrhea, especially the common food poisoning diarrhea in summer, but it will affect the absorption of other drugs and minerals, so it cannot be taken for a long time.
Peifeikang whole intestine raw Mamiai microbial preparation
It can regulate intestinal flora, improve intestinal immunity, protect the growth of beneficial bacteria, promote gastric juice secretion and enhance digestive function. It is beneficial for the elderly, children and patients with weak constitution to improve diarrhea and recover as soon as possible.
Yimeng nerve-stopping antidiarrheal drug
By enhancing the tension of intestinal smooth muscle, inhibiting intestinal propulsion and peristalsis, prolonging the retention time of its contents, it plays an antidiarrheal role and is suitable for diarrhea or chronic diarrhea caused by sympathetic nerve excitation. Because of its definite curative effect, many people take this medicine as soon as they have diarrhea. In fact, if Yimengting is simply used, it is not conducive to the regression of inflammation, and it should not be used when there is watery diarrhea accompanied by symptoms of bacterial infection such as abdominal distension and fever.
A method for treating diarrhea
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general treatment
If the primary disease is difficult to correct or obvious primary factors have not been found, the following general measures are beneficial to most patients.
1. Correct bad eating habits
Eat enough food.
Eat more foods with high crude fiber content and get into the habit of drinking more water.
Regular oral administration of a small amount of wheat bran (dietary fiber 25 ~ 30g /d, not suitable for patients with organic intestinal stenosis).
The daily drinking water should reach 3000 ml.
2. Develop good living habits
Regular daily life, active participation in sports activities and maintaining an optimistic mental state are also helpful to improve the function of digestive tract.
Often eat big fish and meat, a little careless, it is easy to have diarrhea. In view of the characteristics of increased intestinal peristalsis, increased exudation and/or secretion of intestinal mucosa and imbalance of intestinal flora during diarrhea, antidiarrheal drugs can be roughly divided into several types, such as intestinal peristalsis inhibitors (such as compound phenylephrine and Yimengting), astringent antidiarrheal agents (such as tannic acid protein and bismuth carbonate), mucosal protectants (such as smecta) and microecological agents (such as bifico and whole intestine). In addition, antidiarrheal drugs can be used to treat diarrhea.
The most important thing to treat diarrhea is to prescribe the right medicine. Diarrhea can be divided into infectious and non-infectious diseases. Infectious diarrhea is caused by pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, such as bacillary dysentery, bacterial food poisoning and viral enteritis. Non-infectious diarrhea is common in colds, indigestion, gastrointestinal dysfunction and systemic diseases such as hyperthyroidism, diabetes and uremia. Infectious diarrhea is a manifestation of human self-protection, which can excrete some toxins and is beneficial to human body. If diarrhea is stopped blindly, it will be unfavorable to the prognosis of the disease. In principle, antidiarrheal drugs are only suitable for non-infectious diarrhea, and infectious diarrhea is generally not used, especially in acute stage, when inflammation and poisoning symptoms (such as high fever) are obvious and purulent stool is more, it should be regarded as an absolute taboo for antidiarrheal drugs; In the recovery period, the condition improved obviously and there was no pus in the stool. Only with more water, you can also take antidiarrheal drugs for a short time.
Secondly, we should pay attention to the difference of pathogenesis and medication. If it is caused by increased intestinal peristalsis, such as hyperthyroidism, diabetes, gastrointestinal dysfunction and so on. Intestinal peristalsis inhibitor should be the first choice to prolong the retention time of intestinal contents, which is beneficial to water absorption and diarrhea. If it is caused by increased intestinal mucosal secretion, such as cholera and bacterial food poisoning, astringents and adsorbents can be used to stop diarrhea by inhibiting intestinal mucosal secretion and adsorbing harmful toxins. If diarrhea is due to increased exudation caused by mucosal inflammation and ulcers, mucosal protectants can be used to protect the mucosa and remove bacteria, viruses and toxins. For infantile diarrhea and antibiotic-associated diarrhea caused by intestinal flora, microecological agents should be the first choice. By supplementing intestinal probiotics, the microecological balance in the intestine can be restored, the gastrointestinal function can be regulated, and diarrhea can be stopped. Some diarrhea is not caused by a single factor, so it is appropriate to combine drugs as appropriate.
Third, stopping diarrhea is only symptomatic treatment, and treating the cause is fundamental. Therefore, while stopping diarrhea and rehydrating, we cannot ignore the treatment of the primary disease. If it is infectious diarrhea, sensitive antibiotics should be used to control infection; If it is caused by indigestion, we should start with adjusting diet; If it is caused by gastrointestinal dysfunction, drugs and sedatives that regulate autonomic nervous function can be selected.
Excessive use of antidiarrheal drugs can cause abdominal distension, constipation and false intestinal obstruction. Taking antidiarrheal drugs for infectious diarrhea will cover up the condition and affect the doctor's diagnosis. Taking antidiarrheal drugs for patients with bacillary dysentery will often affect the excretion of bacteria and toxins in the intestine, aggravate the symptoms of toxic blood and prolong the course of disease. Antidiarrheal drugs used for acute ulcerative colitis can cause toxic megacolon and intestinal perforation. In addition, compound phenylethyl piperidine and codeine contain anesthetic components, which are addictive after long-term use, so use with caution.