With a disease such as diarrhea, more than once in a lifetime, every person has encountered. Its main symptoms are known to all. The excruciating pains and frequent urge to the toilet accompanying the disease can, although not for long, but incapacitate any person. Treatment for diarrhea depends on what caused it. The disease is caused by pathogenic microorganisms and toxins present in stale food. In any case, the first sign of diarrhea is loose stools, it occurs as a result of a violation of water-salt metabolism in the intestine. In this case, dehydration may occur in the body.
First, it is important to find out what caused acute
diarrhea in adults. Treatment is prescribed after diagnosis. It is especially worth paying attention to cases when the patient ate canned foods before the onset of the first symptoms. The most dangerous food poisoning - botulism - has such a symptom as diarrhea. Therefore, it is recommended that you always seek medical attention. If the cause of the disease is not a toxin, but pathogenic microbes, then it will be necessary to take tests and find out the diagnosis. Diarrhea is a sign of diseases such as colienteritis, dysentery, salmonellosis.
It is very important that the treatment of diarrhea is timely and correct. It must be started as soon as the first symptoms appear. If the disease is even a little run, then the condition will begin to deteriorate sharply. This can lead to a number of serious problems, such as dehydration, loss of important vitamins and minerals. After frequent urination, it is better to start treatment of diarrhea with traditional medicine. Very often it is they that help eliminate the disease in the early stages of its development.
In folk medicine, a lot of drugs are known, some of them have gained great fame and have been tested in practice more than once. The most common way to normalize stool is with strong black tea. But you need to drink it without sugar. As for the volume of drunk, then enough four mugs per day.
An equally useful tool is rice. Rather, not the cereal itself, but its broth. This method is known to so many. It gently acts on the intestinal mucosa. Treatment of diarrhea in children can be carried out exclusively with this tool. Preparing a decoction is very simple. For 1 spoon of rice take two glasses of water. When the cereal is cooked, the liquid is passed through a sieve and allowed to cool. A day you need to drink 3 times half a cup.
Another wonderful and safe remedy for diarrhea is dill. Not only its leaves, but also seeds are used. You can use both fresh and dry grass. Finely chopped and eaten one spoonful, washed down with a little salt water. The procedure is repeated twice a day. It is best to immediately eat the leaves along with the seeds - so much more effective.
Well, of course, you still need to use the traditional methods that eliminate diarrhea. Treatment preparations include such as Regidron, Enterol, Hilak forte, Linex, Bifikol. It happens that in severe forms of the disease, antibiotics are prescribed. But how effective they are is a very controversial issue. Therefore, doctors prefer in most cases to do without them.