The possible causes of diarrhea like water include intestinal infection, indigestion, inflammatory bowel disease, etc. Treatment includes general treatment and medication.
1. Intestinal infections: such as eating spoiled moldy or amoeba and other infected food, etc., may trigger intestinal infections. For example, amoebic dysentery, severe diarrhea can be rehydrated to correct water and electrolyte disorders. Commonly used anti-amoeba drugs include nitroimidazoles such as metronidazole, diclofenac, etc. General bacterial infections can be treated with anti-infective therapy such as ofloxacin.
2. Dyspepsia: Treatment mainly includes dietary adjustment and medication. Dietary adjustments include balanced diet, reducing spicy and stimulating foods, quitting smoking and drinking, and moderate exercise. Drugs are mainly chosen according to the symptoms, patients with diarrhea as the main symptom can use montelukast to stop diarrhea, compound digestive enzymes to assist digestion.
3. Inflammatory bowel disease: most of the patients with this disease can be controlled by drugs, available drugs include aminosalicylic acid preparations such as sulfasalazine, oxalazine, glucocorticosteroids such as methylprednisolone, betamethasone, immunosuppressants such as cyclophosphamide, methotrexate and so on.
In addition to the above reasons, the symptoms can also be caused by cold in the abdomen. It is recommended to go to the hospital in time, complete the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, and then give targeted treatment or therapy. The above medications should be used under the guidance of a pharmacist or doctor, avoid self-medication.