What to do when you get cold and have diarrhea

Diarrhea after getting cold, some common causes are gastroenteritis, irritable bowel syndrome, infectious diarrhea, inflammatory bowel disease, etc. It is generally recommended to alleviate the problem through physical methods and medication.
1. Gastroenteritis: patients suffer from cold leading to a decline in immunity, easy to cause gastrointestinal infections, gastroenteritis, acute stage is generally recommended to fasting, through rehydration of the way to replenish water and prevent electrolyte disorders. Infectious gastroenteritis in the doctor’s guidance to use antibiotics, adults commonly used fluoroquinolones, such as norfloxacin capsules, azithromycin and so on.
2. Irritable Bowel Syndrome: It is easy to induce Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) after getting cold, which causes abdominal intestinal flora imbalance and abnormal gastrointestinal peristalsis leading to the occurrence of diarrhea, and you can take probiotics appropriately to regulate the intestinal flora and alleviate the diarrhea, such as Saccharomyces boulardii and Bifidobacterium bifidum.
3. Infectious diarrhea: In the acute stage, fasting is generally recommended, and replenishment of water and electrolyte disorders should be prevented through rehydration. Meanwhile, if there is bacterial infection, antibiotics such as ofloxacin should be used for anti-infection treatment.
4. Inflammatory bowel disease: in the acute stage, there may be diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, can use salicylazosulfapyridine to control mild to moderate active inflammatory bowel disease, can also be used to prednisone and other glucocorticoid therapy. Surgery should be considered in cases of perforation and hemorrhage.
If diarrhea is not relieved, or accompanied by other symptoms, it is necessary to go to the hospital in a timely manner to clarify the cause of the disease and then give targeted treatment. All of the above medications should be used under the guidance of a doctor, avoid self-medication.