Nausea, vomiting, stomach ache and diarrhea - what to do when this happens to you? If there is no temperature, then you can be treated with home remedies. Many of them are quite effective and time-tested. As a rule, after their use, sharp abdominal pains, diarrhea pass on the second day. If this continues further, then it will be safer to seek medical help. What can be done immediately when diarrhea begins, at home?
Stomach ache and diarrhea
What do you need to do right away? Drink fluids as much as possible: mineral water, green tea, plain water, compotes. It is better to refuse food on the first day, the main thing is to prevent dehydration of the body. Diarrhea is scary because it removes all the liquid from it, as well as useful elements and substances. You need to drink every half hour in a glass, in small sips. Activated charcoal helps - it will bind toxins and relieve nausea.
It should be taken in dissolved form (at least 6 tablets should be diluted in boiled warm water). You can stop diarrhea with the help of starch: you need to eat a dessert spoon of starch and drink it with water.
Stomach ache and diarrhea, what else to do? You can prepare a manganese solution (2-3 granules per liter
of boiled water). Take 50 ml every half hour. Potassium permanganate has a disinfecting property, so it will remove the effects of poisoning.
If your stomach and diarrhea really hurt, what can cause these symptoms? There can be many reasons, and they will all be different. A reliable diagnosis can only be made by a doctor. Diarrhea (or diarrhea) is a consequence of a malfunction in the gastrointestinal tract. Food poisoning, bacterial, infectious infections lead to it. Diarrhea can also be a secondary sign of other current illnesses. In addition, diarrhea can be caused by taking various medications, drugs.
Probable Causes of Diarrhea
Among them are such factors:
- infectious (tuberculosis, dysentery, salmonellosis, cholera);
- infestations, helminths;
- malignant tumors (cancer of the rectum, intestines);
- dysbiosis;
- toxic effects (poisoning by alcohol, salts of heavy metals, medicines);
- lactase, disaccharidase deficiency, intestinal enzyme;
- dystrophic change in the intestinal wall;
- enteritis, enterocolitis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis;
- disturbances in the intestines (irritable bowel syndrome) , etc.
This can be the cause of stomach ache and diarrhea. What to do? If there is no improvement for 2-3 days, then medical help is needed.
Diarrhea Remedies
As stated, diarrhea can lead to dehydration. Such pharmaceutical preparations as "Regidron", "Hydrovit", "Gastrolit", "Normohydron" will help to avoid this. Their action is aimed at restoring the water-electrolyte balance of the body, disturbed during its dehydration, as well as detoxification. As a rule, these preparations have a powder consistency, are diluted in 1 liter of boiled water. They drink the solution for 3-4 days, stop with a retreat of diarrhea. To maintain and restore microflora, you can take drugs "Smecta", "Linex", etc.