Sep 11 2011

Facts about Diarrhea

What is the best way to avoid traveler’s diarrhea?
For your safety and health always have a Traveler’s First Aid Kit which include medicines for diarrhea, fever, headache, dizziness. Common ailments when traveling. Of course, a good habit to eat fresh, clean and freshly cooked food. Drink hygienically bottled water.

I always have diarrhea when traveling and always take the prescribed medicine for it. Very effective and stopped the severe diarrhea. This is normal because our stomache is not use to different and strange food.
However, the usual advice of “drink bottled water” isn’t enough. In too many less-developed countries bottled water is just the tap water in a bottle.

Only drink liquids that are carbonated (water with gas, colas), fermented (beer, wine), distilled, or boiled.
What is the best way to rehydrate yourself after diarrhea?
Gatorade, sports drinks, bananas….they have all the electrolytes you need following and during a bout of diarrhea. You lose potassium with diarrhea, it’s important to replenish (Sports drinks and bananas have potassium). Too much water, can lower sodium levels (Gatorade also has sodium), alternate water and sports drinks. Bananas, rice, applesauce, dry toast, saltine crackers, dry cereals like cheerios, soup broth, jello, sno-cones, popsicles… advance as tolerated. Stay away from milk products and citrus for a few days and anything irritating to the stomach (caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, fatty, greasy foods, spicy foods). Hope you feel better soon. Important thing is hydration and sugar for the brain.

The traditional British colonial drink of “Gin + tonic water – no ice” might not be a very interesting cocktail but it is safe to drink.

If you are are in a restaurant or cafe tell them to bring the bottles (of anything) to you unopened.

Depending on where you are going in Mexico you may not have as much risk of a problem. The resort areas that cater to international tourists are generally OK.

If you have not been vaccinated against Hepatitis A (and B) you should do that:

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations…

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2…

What foods are good to help bind the tummy when your toddler has diarrhea?
Bananas
Rice
Applesauce
Toast
What causes the abdominal pain you get when you have diarrhea?
It’s the bacteria in your colon. Diarrhea is caused by bacteria, or, in most cases, “dirty” food. Bacteria, which alters the food that passes through your digestive tract, may or may not cause extreme, or mild, abdominal pain.
Is it normal to have diarrhea when you start antibiotics?
antibiotics go thru the entire body, including the intestines. While they do treat the infection, they also wipe out the normal bacteria in our intestines that we need to digest food. You can mitigate this side effect by taking a probiotic which you can get at any supplement store, like GNC, or by eating yogurt three times a day

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How do I get rid of chronic diarrhea, doctors have failed to help.?
Doctors will prescribe drugs and are costly to deal with. There are several things you can do, but you need to get to the root cause of the problem. Taking drugs will only give you “MAKE BELIEVE HEALTH” and as you have found, are ineffective many times, especially if the diarrhea is chronic.

If the root cause of the diarrhea is in the small intestines, it is characterized by large quantities of water and/or fatty stools (fatty stools float); if the diarrhea is due to disease in or of the colon, the stools are frequent and often accompanied by blood, mucus, or pus; if the disease is rectal in origin, there are often frequent movements of a small amount of stools.

Parasitic infections are very common in America and is primarily due to LOW STOMACH acid production. The stomach is responsible for killing germs, but if there is not enough hydrochloric acid in the stomach after a meal, the pH of the stomach does not get low enough to kill the germs and they have free reign to enter the body. Killing the intestinal flora is another typical way parasites, bad bacteria, etc. can enter the body and feed on rotted food due to low stomach acid production.

The main dangers of chronic diarrhea includes dehydration and mineral or electrolyte imbalance, malabsorption, weight loss, or the presence of something more serious.

Taking antibiotics will cause this problem because antibiotics kill the good bacteria in the intestines that are 3/4 of your immune system in the body. A healthy person will have about 3 pounds of these bacteria in their gut, but taking one antibiotic pill will destroy them. It’s not easy to replenish these bacteria and taking a probiotic pill will not do it on it’s own. Eating lots of fermented foods like homemade kefir, sauerkraut, fermented vegetables, etc. will help greatly.

A Certified Nutritional Therapist can help you greatly with this problem, especially one who knows QRA testing. You need to get to the root cause of the problem, not just wildly guessing the cause.

Source :- Yahoo answers

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