There are many causes of diarrhea. After excluding other factors such as intestinal infections, stomach and liver, gallbladder and pancreatic diseases, intestinal tumors, inflammatory bowel disease, food poisoning, and cold, if it is clear that diabetes causes diarrhea you can intervene in the following ways.
Diarrhea in diabetic patients is mainly due to the following reasons:
1. Autonomic neuropathy caused by long-term high blood sugar. Nutritional nerve drugs such as vitamin B can be taken on the basis of active control of blood sugar.
2. Certain hypoglycemic drugs cause gastrointestinal side effects. For example, metformin, after taking this kind of hypoglycemic drugs, some patients will have diarrhea and this kind of gastrointestinal reaction, after stopping the drug, the symptom can be improved, and need to adjust the medication.
3. Combination of organic lesions of the intestinal tract. If the above factors are excluded, enteroscopy can be done to exclude organic lesions of the intestinal tract, symptomatic treatment.
In addition, patients should pay attention to control blood sugar, diarrhea is serious or symptoms continue to lack of relief should be timely consultation, identify the cause of the disease to do targeted treatment.