Watermelon eating bad stomach may be related to physiological factors and pathological factors: irritable bowel syndrome, acute gastroenteritis and other causes. You can follow the doctor’s instructions to take drugs such as loperamide, compound phenethylpiperidine and so on for treatment.
1. Physiological factors: As watermelon contains a lot of sugar, eating too much may cause osmotic diarrhea. Or eating cold watermelon or excessive intake of watermelon, stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, resulting in diarrhea. Need to stop eating watermelon in time, for minor symptoms, can gradually get better, does not need special treatment.
2. Pathologic factors:
(1) irritable bowel syndrome: due to eating cold watermelon, it will cause irritation to the intestinal tract, resulting in diarrhea after eating watermelon. You can follow the medical advice to use drugs: such as loperamide, compound phenethylpiperidine, etc., to reduce intestinal peristalsis and relieve the symptoms of diarrhea.
(2) Acute gastroenteritis: due to the high temperature in summer, the surface of the watermelon opened for too long is prone to bacterial reproduction, which can cause acute gastroenteritis after eating, diarrhea after eating watermelon.
You can follow the doctor’s instructions to take drugs: such as montelukast, loperamide hydrochloride capsules to relieve diarrhea, levofloxacin to fight infection, oral rehydration salts to replenish water and electrolytes.
Eating watermelon diarrhea persists unrelieved, you need to go to the regular hospital in time for examination, identify the cause of the disease, symptomatic treatment.