It’s summer again, crawfish, all kinds of barbecue, cold beer, foodie benefits. After all kinds of high, the annoying diarrhea gentleman is not looking for the door again?
Diarrhea is familiar to everyone since childhood, nicknamed “diarrhea”, this gentleman has more than 3 bowel movements per day, thin feces, increased water, more than 200g of feces per day, or contains undigested food or pus, blood, mucus. Diarrhea is often accompanied by a sense of urgency to defecate, anal discomfort, incontinence and other symptoms. There are two types of diarrhea: acute and chronic.
The body loses the most fluids and electrolytes after diarrhea. When dehydration occurs severely, it is likely to trigger kidney failure, which is the main cause of death due to diarrhea. Therefore, if you want to drink water after diarrhea, you should drink some rehydration salts. If you have diarrhea, you should also continue to eat and replenish your nutrition. You can eat thin, soft, easily digestible and nutritious food, such as egg custard, cereal porridge, rice porridge and noodles.
Not all diarrhea should be medicated, do you know the five major misconceptions?
Myth 1: Misuse of antibiotics
Many patients have diarrhea, regardless of the three seven twenty-one, the use of antibiotics such as cotrimoxazole or norfloxacin. In fact, this practice is not right. Non-infectious diarrhea is caused by improper diet, food allergies, changes in lifestyle patterns, sudden changes in climate, etc. This kind of diarrhea is ineffective if treated with antibiotics and should be treated with some digestive aids or diet therapy. Even for infectious diarrhea (mostly caused by bacteria), when choosing antibiotics, bacterial culture should be done to select the most sensitive antibiotics for treatment, do not abuse antibiotics.
Misconception 2: Misuse of antidiarrheal drugs
Some patients use antidiarrheal agents immediately after the onset of diarrhea, this practice is also unscientific. Because at the early stage of the disease, diarrhea can discharge the pathogenic bacteria from the body and the toxins they produce and the harmful substances that enter the gastrointestinal tract, reducing the toxic effects on the human body. At this time, if you use antidiarrheal agents, it is undoubtedly a closed door to keep the enemy. Of course, if diarrhea is frequent, lasts for a long time and dehydration symptoms appear, under the premise of applying antibiotics and correcting water-electrolyte disorders, antidiarrheal agents can be used as appropriate.
Misconception 3: Abuse of painkillers
Some diarrhea patients often use painkillers to stop abdominal pain, but this is actually a very inappropriate practice. The use of painkillers may mask or aggravate the condition, and in the case of elderly people with glaucoma, may also trigger or aggravate glaucoma. For mild abdominal pain, hot water bags can be used to warm the abdomen to relieve abdominal pain, while those with severe abdominal pain should use painkillers under the guidance of a doctor.
Misconception four: frequent change of medicine
Some diarrhea patients are eager to cure the disease, 1-2 days after the use of drugs do not see improvement, they are eager to replace other drugs. In fact, any drug needs a process to work, if not according to the prescribed course of medication, of course, can not achieve the effect. In addition, frequent replacement of antibiotics, easy to make the bacteria and the body to produce resistance, but cause adverse consequences. Therefore, to follow the prescribed course of medication, not arbitrarily frequent change of drugs.
Myth 5: Stopping medication too early
A few patients with diarrhea often take medication according to the symptoms, that is, more medication when the diarrhea is heavy, less medication when the diarrhea is light, and stop taking medication when there is a slight improvement. This can easily lead to incomplete treatment and relapse of diarrhea, or from acute diarrhea to chronic diarrhea, bringing more difficulties to the treatment.
The correct posture of diarrhea medication
1. Attack – haloperidol to kill germs
The most common causes of acute diarrhea are food poisoning and intestinal infections. If you suddenly have diarrhea, the first thing to think about is whether you have eaten spoiled, contaminated or toxic food, and be sure to take the initiative to tell your doctor when you visit him or her.
Of course, the most common cause of acute diarrhea is intestinal infection, and patients are often accompanied by nausea, abdominal pain, and fever. The use of antibacterial drugs such as haloperidol, laxative and dysentery is a “tit-for-tat” offensive strategy, and safranin also has an anti-infective effect. It should be emphasized that, first of all, “attack” before the “enemy” to “find out the enemy”. The causative agent of intestinal infection may be bacteria or virus, and antibacterial drugs are useless for the latter. Secondly, once the condition is clear to use antibacterial drugs, must be under the guidance of a doctor with a full course of treatment, otherwise it is easy to trigger drug resistance.
2, defense – Similac protects the intestinal tract
The use of antibiotics to actively attack at the same time, but also to do a good job of defensive measures, this time need to digestive tract mucosa protective agents, such as Similac. The main component of Similda is montmorillonite, which can evenly cover the surface of the digestive tract mucosa after oral administration and inhibit various digestive tract viruses and germs and the toxins they produce. It can be taken for diarrhea with mild abdominal pain.
It should be reminded that the adsorption ability of Similac is strong, therefore, it is better to take antibiotics 1 hour before or 2 hours after taking Similac in order not to affect the efficacy.
3, Chicha – the whole intestine to regulate the flora
There are at least 400 kinds of microorganisms in the human intestine, more than 90% of which are “permanent residents”. If their proportion, type and number change significantly, they will also occur “internal disorder”, causing diarrhea, bloating, gas and other symptoms. The use of antibiotics, it is easy to “hurt a thousand enemies, self-loss eight hundred”, may wish to seek assistance, looking for probiotics to solve the problem. Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bacillus licheniformis and other probiotics, can restrain the pathogenic bacteria in the intestinal tract, to quell the “internal chaos”.
4.Supply – sugar and salt water to add energy
”Before the army moves, food and grass first” is the way of the soldier. Therefore, when treating diarrhea, do not forget to “replenish” the body. You can keep some glucose powder and saline at home. When the symptoms of diarrhea are mild, 100 ml of warm saline with 10-15 grams of sugar can be used to drink 3-5 times a day to replenish energy and assist in treatment. Glucose can also be mixed in milk, soy milk or vegetable porridge to take. However, it should be noted that this method should be used with caution in patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, and those with malabsorption of glucose and galactose. Intravenous rehydration is also required to correct diarrhea in severe cases.