This disease is an acute inflammation of gastrointestinal mucosa, and its clinical manifestations are mainly nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and fever. This disease is more common in summer and autumn, and its occurrence is mostly due to improper diet and overeating; Or eat raw, cold, rotten, filthy food. According to the different etiology and constitution, gastroenteritis can be divided into damp-heat type, cold-dampness type and blood stasis type.

Diagnostic points

Nausea and vomiting caused by gastroenteritis are usually acute, starting with abdominal discomfort and then nausea and vomiting. Abdominal paroxysmal colic with diarrhea, watery stool several to dozens times a day, yellow or yellow-green, containing a small amount of mucus. Accompanied by varying degrees of fever, aversion to cold, headache and so on. In a few cases, frequent vomiting and diarrhea may lead to dehydration, electrolyte disorder and acidosis.

Treatment suggestion

When the symptoms are mild, you can buy your own medicine for treatment:

1. You can take motilium when you are sick or vomiting;

2. When abdominal pain occurs, scopolamine, belladonna extract and bromopropylamine can be taken orally.

3. Berberine can be used for diarrhea, and loperamide capsules can be taken if the effect is not ideal.

On the basis of TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment, the following Chinese patent medicines can be selected:

1. belongs to cold-dampness type, and is suitable for dispelling cold, drying dampness and aromatic turbidity. You can take Huoxiang Zhengqi Pill and Liuhe Zhong Ding Pill.

2. It belongs to summer-heat dampness type, and should clear summer-heat dampness and stomach. You can take summer dampness and healthy qi pills.

3. It belongs to stagnation type, and should promote digestion and guide stagnation balance. You can take baohe pills for treatment.

4. It belongs to deficiency-cold type, which should be warm and cold-dispelling, and tonify the spleen and stomach. You can take Fuzi Lizhong Pill, Shen Ling Baizhu Powder, etc.

Matters needing attention

1. Patients with acute gastroenteritis should stay in bed and keep warm.

2. Acute patients often have symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea, and lose a lot of water. Therefore, it is necessary to replenish liquids, provide fresh fruit juice, lotus root starch, rice soup, egg soup and other liquid foods, and drink plenty of boiled water and light salt water.

3. In order to avoid flatulence caused by gastrointestinal fermentation, we should avoid eating gas-producing foods such as beef in the acute stage and minimize the intake of sucrose. Pay attention to food hygiene. Avoid high-fat fried, fried, smoked and waxed fish, vegetables and fruits with more cellulose, stimulating drinks, food and seasonings.