There is no need to stock up on medicine. Since the emergence of the new coronavirus, if you read any version of the guidelines issued by the country, you will find that gastrointestinal discomforts such as diarrhea and vomiting have already occurred. These symptoms are not only present after having XBB. Some people even have no fever and no symptoms. Coughing, just diarrhea. Therefore, no matter whether it is XBB or something else, don’t worry. Diarrhea after infection is not a new symptom and can be treated symptomatically.
1. Even if there is no new coronavirus infection, our usual cold and fever may cause diarrhea. For example, various viruses such as rotavirus, norovirus, zarovirus, astrovirus, and enteric adenovirus can cause diarrhea. Therefore, diarrhea caused by new coronavirus infection has the same cause as before. It’s viral diarrhea!
Especially in winter and spring, this kind of viral diarrhea is more common, and diarrhea caused by viral infection is much higher than diarrhea caused by bacteria.
2. In most cases, viral diarrhea is a self-limiting disease. There is no so-called specific medicine. Treatment mainly involves rehydration and symptomatic treatment, and no special treatment is required at all. Once infected and diarrhea occurs, patients only need to adjust their diet, pay attention to rest, and replenish water and electrolytes to prevent dehydration.
3. The most important thing to treat diarrhea is to replenish water and electrolytes, not to stop diarrhea. Diarrhea will not make your condition worse. Severe water loss in the body and electrolyte imbalance will aggravate our condition. So on the contrary, instead of preparing a large amount of antidiarrheal medicine, it is better to prepare some oral rehydration salts.
4. Once severe symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea, or high fever occur, it is not recommended that you take antidiarrheal drugs, but you need to go to the hospital for treatment in time.
Finally, the casual use of antidiarrheal drugs such as montmorillonite powder may lead to serious consequences such as constipation in the later period.
Because montmorillonite powder is off-white powder or yellowish fine powder, its main component is octahedral montmorillonite particles. It is a gastrointestinal mucosal protective agent and has a certain astringent effect. It can stop diarrhea by using its octahedral structure technology to "package" the germs and toxins that cause diarrhea and take them away from our body, thereby exerting its anti-diarrheal effect. However, because of this special particle shape and super covering efficiency, 3g of montmorillonite can cover the entire gastrointestinal wall of a normal adult, and can last for more than 6 hours. It is easy to make it difficult to excrete from the body, and excessive use can cause Cause constipation.