Diarrhea can be caused by indigestion, food poisoning, emotional stress, legumes, pancreatic disease, cancer, laxatives, acidulants, caffeine, parasites, colitis, viruses, germs, or other microorganisms, drinking unclean water, eating spoiled food, and food or chemical allergies.
Patients with diarrhea must drink plenty of fluids, such as saline, carob tea, carrot juice, and green drinks (which contain chlorophyll). If the condition does not improve, or if there is blood in the feces, see a doctor. An allergy test can be done to see if you are allergic to certain foods.
Home remedies
●Drink plenty of water
The patient with diarrhea must be hydrated because of severe dehydration and electrolyte disorders due to the large number of bowel movements. Rehydration salts containing sodium chloride, potassium chloride and glucose, sodium citrate are the ideal choice, because they can replenish the body's loss of glucose, minerals, and regulate potassium, sodium electrolytes, water and acid-base balance; and carrot juice, apple juice, watermelon juice and so on not only to replenish the water, but also to replenish the essential vitamins, is also a very good supplement. They are all good remedies to prevent the body from becoming dehydrated and deficient due to diarrhea.
●Don't rush into medication
Unless the diarrhea is caused by a viral or bacterial infection, or severe diarrhea with complications, ordinary diarrhea doesn't need to be treated with medication, and its symptoms usually don't last more than 48 hours. Therefore, do not use medication to stop diarrhea for at least two days, as diarrhea is the body's way of eliminating toxins. Today, doctors discourage the use of antidiarrheal agents when a patient has acute diarrhea, unless there is an urgent need to control it. Otherwise, it may be beneficial to let it pass and speed recovery.
●Check your medications
Diarrhea can sometimes be related to medications you take, such as acidulants that condense heartburn. Acids are the most common cause of diarrhea. To avoid heartburn-related diarrhea, it is recommended that you use an acidifier that contains only aluminum hydroxide. In addition to acidulants, antibiotics, quinidine, colchicine (anti-gout medicine) and other medications may also cause diarrhea. If you suspect that these or other medications are causing your diarrhea, ask your doctor.
●Go with the flow
Many people like to treat diarrhea with pectin, acidophilus, carob powder, barley, bananas, ricotta, and all sorts of strange foods. These things constrict the intestines and slow down peristalsis. But in reality, this only prolongs the time the source of the problem is in your body. What you really need is to get rid of the substance that is causing the diarrhea, and the best way to do that is to let it go naturally.
●Stay out of the kitchen
During a period of diarrhea, you should not cook for your family until the symptoms have cleared up. Wash your hands after using the toilet to avoid spreading the disease to others.
Diet and Nutrition
●Drink 3 bowls of rice soup a day
Rice soup is good for diarrhea. Boil 3 cups of water with ? cup of brown rice for 45 minutes, strain and drink 3 bowls a day. Eating rice also helps to form stools and provides vitamin B.
●Take charcoal tablets
Take 4 charcoal tablets with water every hour until the situation improves. Use at night. Do not combine with other vitamins or medications.
●Eat a light diet
During diarrhea, you should eat a light, liquid diet, such as chicken broth or other clear liquids. This is because your intestines need to rest during diarrhea. Once you're sure the chicken soup is okay, gradually add rice, yogurt (with good bacteria), lettuce, and other easy-to-digest foods to your diet while your symptoms improve.
●Avoid the following foods
The most important foods to avoid when you have diarrhea include beans and kale. Other foods that are high in unabsorbable carbohydrates can also worsen diarrhea. These foods include fats, wheat and gluten-containing foods such as bread, pasta and other flour products, apples, pears, plums, corn, oats and potatoes. Avoid carbonated beverages, which contain gas that can add fuel to your diarrhea.
●Mineral supplements
Take kelp powder capsules, 5 per day, or kelp soup for a mineral boost. Take 100 milligrams of potassium daily to replace lost potassium.
●Use garlic to kill bacteria
You can prevent and treat bacterial diarrhea by eating a few cloves of garlic with each meal. If you can't or don't want to eat raw garlic, you can take garlic capsules, 2 capsules 3 times a day, which also work as a sterilizer (for bacteria and parasites).
●Supplementation of essential nutrients
①Calcium and Vitamin D
1500 mg per day. Replaces lost calcium and helps to form feces. 400iu of vitamin D daily to help calcium absorption.
② Digestive Enzymes
Taken with meals. It is rich in pancreatic enzymes, which help with digestion.
3 Magnesium
1000 mg daily. Helps calcium absorption and promotes ph balance.
4 Psyllium or oat bran
4 capsules before bed. Helps to form feces.
5 Unsaturated fatty acids
Dosage according to product instructions, helps to form feces.
6) Vitamin B complex with vitamin Bl and niacin and folic acid
Vitamin D complex with vitamin D: 200 mg daily for 2 weeks. Niacin and folic acid: 50 mg/day. Due to malabsorption, it may be necessary to consult a physician for vitamin D injections.
⑦ Vitamin E
400iu-1000i3 per day. Protects the membranes of the cells of the colon.
●Careful use of milk crystals
Lactose intolerance is an important cause of dysentery. Lactose intolerance can occur in infancy or suddenly in adulthood. If you experience gas and abdominal pain followed by diarrhea after drinking milk, you may be allergic to lactose. The best treatment, of course, is to avoid lactose-containing foods, which means staying away from most dairy products, with the exception of yogurt and some aged cheeses. When you avoid these foods, the diarrhea stops.
●Testing
Because lactose intolerance is dose-dependent and has a tendency to come on suddenly, how can you tell if your diarrhea is related to lactic acid? One way is to have the patient completely abstain from dairy for 1 to 2 weeks to see if that helps. If stopping milk really works, the patient can then gradually add lactulite back into the diet. In the meantime, lactose intolerance will return when the amount of dairy reaches a certain level. Therefore, you can avoid diarrhea if you don't take more than this amount of dairy.
●Natural Herbs
For occasional diarrhea, try blackberry root, chamomile tea, and raspberry leaf. You can also add medicinal plants to applesauce, bananas, avocados or woodchuck juice. Take pepper capsules or pepper leaf tea 2 to 3 times a day. Ginger tea is good for cramps and abdominal pain. Slippery elm bark is also good, 6 capsules or 3 teaspoons of powdered slippery elm bark per 8 ounces of water.