In addition, the diarrhea violates the general state of a person and makes it adjust its plans, it inevitably accompanied by dehydration of the body, and in extremely severe cases it is capable of death. What could be caused by diarrhea and how to cope with him?
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Statistics read: diarrhea, or, scientifically, diarrhea, ranks second in the prevalence among human diseases, passing forward only acute respiratory diseases. During life, each person necessarily transfers at least a few diarrhea attacks. Some diarrhea arises sharply and lasts no more than two weeks, others occur chronically for many years.
What is diarrhea?
Diarrhea — This is a pathological symptom characterized by an increase in the number of feces of more than 3–4 times a day, the dispersion of the carts and the appearance of various impurities in them, which was not noted until a certain point.
The color of the feces for diarrhea in adults can fluctuate from normal, yellowish, to green and even black. Cal may be a foamy, watery, inhomogeneous, may contain an admixture of untapped pieces of food, mucus or blood, to have a ilonic or sour smell.
The appearance of a liquid chair is preceded by a rumbling, bloating, spastic abdominal pain, requiring immediate emptying of the intestine. Diarrhea may be accompanied by an increase in body temperature, rotten extermination, nausea, vomiting. An analysis of all these symptoms allows the doctor to make an assumption that it was the cause of diarrhea.
Reasons for diarrhea in adults
Diarrhea in an adult can be caused by various bacterial and viral infections, food poisoning. The risk of picking salmonelles and dysentery is actually great, especially when accidental accidents, when edeveloped food, neglect the rules for storing, prepare and eating, with personal hygiene defects.
Tourists traveling in southern countries can easily pick up acute diarrhea: in exotic countries, the mass of intestinal infections, in front of which our person turns out to be absolutely defenseless.
Diarrhea can accompany the enzymatic insufficiency in pancreatitis and gallstone disease, may be a symptom of intestinal diseases, chemicals poisoning. Sometimes diarrhea accompanies reception of drugs, in particular antibiotics, and is a sign of dysbacteriosis — The state in which the diarrhea is associated with a disorder of intestinal microflora. Neurogenic diarrhea, which people are sometimes called «Bear disease», arises against the background of stress and often occurs in women. The reason for diarrhea can become unfamiliar food, lack of vitamins, drinking alcohol, smoking, and even a quick change of time zones.
What to do with diarrhea?
To cope with diarrhea, it is important to know his nature. In some cases, it is obvious, others have to make a lot of effort to establish the true cause of intestinal disorder. In any case, the treatment of diarrhea must be competent, and it is not always possible to cope with it on their own.
For example, infectious diarrhea often require treatment to a doctor, you can cope with them only with antibiotics, antimicrobial and antiviral drugs. If diarrhea accompanies diseases of digestive organs, the treatment of these diseases is required.
The tactics for diarrhea in an adult should be like this: if diarrhea is accompanied by a high temperature, proceeds against the background of a difficult general condition, if within four days it did not manage to cope with it on their own — need to contact a doctor. Urgent medical care is needed with strong pain in the stomach, the appearance of black, tar-shaped, dark cherry feces or feces with streaks.
How to treat diarrhea at home?
Food
Treatment of diarrhea in an adult begins on diet. Target — provide the body with all the necessary substances and at the same time give rest to the intestine.
On the first day it is better to refrain from meals and limit yourself to sweetened tea and water. Subsequently, the use of rubbed, boiled, baked and stewed dishes is allowed.
Foods stimulating peristalistic and causing fermentation and rotting in the intestines are excluded.
With diarrhea it is impossible
- Whole milk and products from it, fatty sour cream
- Fresh White Bread, Sdoba, Fat Test Products
- Pork, beef, duck, sausage products
- Raw vegetables, cabbage, zucchini, pumpkin — in any form
- Oranges, bananas, plums, apricots
- Manna Kishu
- Bean
- Kuragu, raisins, prunes and all kinds of nuts
- Carbonated drinks
- Chocolate and cocoa
With diarrhea, you can
- Black worn bread, crackers, hanging cookies
- Chicken Meat, Rabbit, Turkey
- Interestic acid milk products
- Lemon juice, diluted with water
- Blueberry, Cranberry, Baked Apples
- Potato
- Buckwheat, rice, oatmeal
- Dried fruits: apples, pears, rosehip
Eating liquid
To prevent dehydration, you need to drink a lot, up to 3 liters of water per day.
Strengthen the strength and fill the loss of liquid and mineral salts will help the drink made from 1 teaspoon of cook salt, 8 tablespoons of sugar, juice 2 oranges divorced in 1 liter of clean boiled water. Take such «medicine» need 1 tablespoon each hour.
Absorbents
Remove microbes and toxins from the intestines and toxins, activated carbon will help to get rid of the abdomen, «Polyfaces», «Smekt», «Enterosgel» and other drugs based on components with the ability to bind the irritant intestine of the substance and naturally take them out of the body.
Enzymes
If diarrhea is associated with enzymatic failure, it is necessary to maintain the digestive system by enzyme preparations, for example, «Mezimom» or Pancreatine.
Medicinal herbs
Diarrhea Help Heel, Badan, Kalgan, St. John's wort, Pijm, Calendula, Coltsfoot, Yarrow, Tavolga and Sport. Black currant, blueberry, cherry, barbaris, rosehip, kidney aspen, Olkhovy bark and oak bark. The meteorism is eliminated by infusion from dill seeds, chamomile flowers and valerian roots.
If nervy is to blame...
Ponoz on the nervous soil should be treated with soothing means, hypnosis, psychotherapy, meditation and autogenic training. As with any nervous disorders, useful marine, iodo-bromine and coniferous baths, aromatherapy using lavender essential oils, orange, mint, roses, pines, eucalyptus.
