Diarrhea with water in an adult: causes and methods of treatment

The dynamic rhythm of life in which modern society lives imposes special obligations on us. A person of the XXI century should always be in full readiness for career and other achievements. However, despite the fact that evolution has also affected medicine, the human body is still subject to a variety of diseases, such as diarrhea with water, which can be caused by an adult any.

In this article, we will look at what diarrhea is, why it takes on the consistency of water, and how to deal with it.

Why does water diarrhea occur?

A disorder such as diarrhea, which is officially called diarrhea, means a change in the consistency of feces accumulating in the intestine, accompanied by various symptoms, for example:

• a sharp increase in body temperature;
• pain in the abdomen;
• vomiting and the like.

The identification of changes associated with the consistency of the stool is carried out directly during the act of defecation, which usually occurs unexpectedly in this case.

In case of disorders, the bathroom has to be visited often, at least 5-6 times a day. This frequency, as well as the low strength of the masses, indicates the so-called indigestion caused by causes of various etiologies.

Before taking measures aimed at eliminating the desired uncomfortable condition, it is necessary to determine the specific cause that led to its occurrence. The best, of course, is to take the following two steps.

First of all, you need to drink plenty of water. The fact is that with watery diarrhea, a catastrophic amount of fluid available in the body is lost. Due to the lack of it, after a while the body will begin to draw water from the blood, muscles, etc., which will lead to severe dehydration, and many different negative consequences, including:

• dizziness;
• apathy;
• other manifestations of moderate severity and even death in especially advanced cases.

Water should be drunk without impurities, it is best to give preference to mineral water without gas, which is used to treat diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. It will not only return the necessary fluid to the body, but also improve the electrolyte balance in the body.

The second important (and mandatory) action is to see a doctor. Suppose that your diarrhea is more or less normal in color, and you suspect that poor-quality food is the reason for its manifestation. In this case, you can cope with the problem yourself, provided that you are not bothered also by:

• heat;
• sweating;
• cramps in the abdomen;
• vomiting, etc.

If your condition can be described as weakened, and all of the above symptoms are present, it is still better to seek help from a doctor, up to calling the local doctor at home, since you need to receive treatment adequate to the disease, but it is not the same to determine it yourself simply.

How does the digestion process take place?

There is such a thing as a food lump - a certain amount of food trapped in the digestive tract, on complete digestion and assimilation of which the body requires at least two days from the moment of absorption (48 hours).

It is during this period that the water contained in food, as well as entering the body in other ways, enters the intestine, and is absorbed into its walls, being distributed further throughout the body. Provided that a mechanical, infectious or other effect is exerted on the surface of the intestinal mucous membranes, they lose their ability to absorb all the incoming water. As a result, she begins to stand out with feces, which entails:

• liquefaction of feces to the consistency of "water";
• frequent urge to defecate.

Normally, human feces are 75% water. This figure seems already very large, however, remember, after all, our body itself is 80% water.

The rest of the mass of dark brown biological secretions consists of:

• digestive juices of the body;
• fiber fibers;
• mucus;
• bacteria;
• intestinal wall cells;
• leftovers from the food we have eaten.

Most often, the development of watery diarrhea is accompanied by the absorption of any food product, which was:

• poorly washed;
• prepared in violation of the heat treatment regime;
• initially flawed.

When harmful microorganisms enter our body, in a completely natural way the digestive tract begins to react to this, causing the occurrence of:

• severe pain in the abdominal cavity;
• vomiting;
• diarrhea, etc.

However, in addition to the sought-after cause, many other factors lead to the formation of watery diarrhea.

Possible causes of diarrhea

First of all, it is necessary to identify several main groups containing the causes of the formation of watery diarrhea, and its achievement of a watery consistency.

Table 1. Groups of factors that cause the occurrence of watery diarrhea

Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract	Diseases of other body systems	Poisoning, allergies
1. Liquid diarrhea is often a consequence of the development of colitis. 2. A colon tumor can also impair the absorption of water by the intestinal wall. 3. An infection of various etiologies that has got inside the gastrointestinal tract becomes the cause of the development of the disease of interest to us. 4. Infection of the gastrointestinal tract with helminths of various families. 5. The defeat of the digestive tract due to congenital disorders in the composition of the digestive juices. 6. Hemorrhoids provoke the development of diarrhea. 7. Pancreatogenic diarrhea accompanies various diseases of the pancreas.	1. Disturbances in the functioning of the nervous system, stress, frequent disorders, can cause watery diarrhea. 2. Watery diarrhea is a frequent "guest" in diseases of the endocrine system associated with disorders of the adrenal glands or thyroid gland. 3. With various liver diseases, hepatogenic diarrhea also occurs. 4. Systemic ailments, such as scleroderma, are very common causes of diarrhea.	Ingestion: spoiled, unwashed, improperly cooked food; the use of an excessive amount of medicines, causing intoxication; eating food that a person is allergic to; eating food with intolerance (for example, if it is impossible to assimilate lactose, such an effect can be caused by cow's milk and other dairy products); poisoning by toxins that have entered the body, for example, when processing garden plots with pesticides, etc.

Most often from all of the above list, the following diseases and infectious factors that have an impact on the body cause the development of watery diarrhea:

• allergic reactions manifested when eating foods that the human body does not tolerate for any reason;
• oncological diseases, such as tumor growth in the large intestine;
• inflammation of the pancreas, steatosis of the desired organ, and other related diseases;
• ulcerative inflammation of the inner mucous membrane of the intestine also leads to impaired absorption of water;
• improper diet, in which fatty, fried foods prevail on the menu, will also sooner or later lead to watery diarrhea, and more serious consequences;
• intolerance to dairy products due to the inability to assimilate lactose.

As we have already said, under the influence of any factors, damage to the mucous surface of the inner walls of the intestine occurs. As a result, it becomes not so easy for them to suck in water, just like the useful components of food, for example, vitamins and minerals, as a result, all the required components of the diet are naturally expelled from the body, causing damage to you.

Even if your condition is not critical, you need to make up for water deficiencies by drinking a couple of glasses of mineral water without gas, however at the same time, it is better to abstain from food, so as not to burden the digestive tract additionally, because the digestion of food will entail by yourself:

• redirecting the body's energy from recovery to processing and assimilation of food;
• additional damage to the intestinal walls;
• repeated bouts of diarrhea.

Diagnostics of the features of the disease by the color of feces

Few people know, but under the influence of various factors, our chair can get coloration of unimaginable colors. In a normal state of health, we can observe a change in the color of feces, for example, after eating any coloring food (beets, for example). However, provided that there is any disorder in the body, the color of diarrhea can become a symptom that will tell the doctor a huge amount of information about the disease, much more than he will get from the description of concomitant diarrhea symptoms.

Liquid stool is a kind of marker of pathology, which, with a combination of different colors, can give highly accurate information about what processes are taking place in the body.

Yellow feces

Provided that you have diarrhea of ​​a water consistency, yellow, the reasons for its occurrence may be as follows.

The first suspected disease is rotavirus infection. In another way, it is called "intestinal flu". Infection with the desired infection is carried out in the following two ways:

• through fecal-oral transmission;
• by airborne droplets.

All healthy (or sick with other diseases) persons who are in contact with a person suffering an illness are at risk.

The second reason for the development of diarrhea with a yellow water consistency may lie in hormonal disorders, almost all of which can occur in both sexes of the population. Among them:

• disorders of the thyroid gland;
• a disease such as diabetes;
• the onset of menopause;
• pregnancy, etc.

Sometimes yellow diarrhea occurs with intestinal dysbiosis, which was caused by long-term use of antimicrobial drugs. The desired condition is not dangerous, and passes rather quickly, since the intestinal bacteria living inside the organ constantly, and those taking part in the processes of assimilation of food reproduce rather quickly, restoring "gaps in ranks ".

Another disease in which yellowing of feces is possible is pancreatitis, or inflammation of the pancreas, which is responsible for the production of digestive juices. Provided that the desired organ becomes inflamed, an acute condition occurs, accompanied by various manifestations, including diarrhea. You should immediately consult a doctor if you find the following accompanying symptoms:

• cutting pain in the abdominal cavity;
• nausea;
• increased body temperature;
• undigested food particles in feces, etc.

For many patients, pancreatitis and danger are synonymous. The symptoms accompanying pancreatitis, the causes of development and methods of treatment, are considered in detail in special article.

In addition, watery diarrhea often turns yellow with peptic ulcer of the gastrointestinal tract, or gastritis, which, unfortunately, are also accompanied by painful sensations. The diseases in question are very dangerous; some organisms, due to their natural weakness, do not tolerate their development. In addition, if both of these diseases are not eliminated in time, there will be a risk of ulcer perforation, which will ultimately lead us to catastrophic consequences.

Feces turn yellow and thin, provided that the functioning of the liver becomes insufficient, as a result, the body lacks bile salt. In this case, the only correct way out for the doctor is to start identifying a specific pathology of the organ, and its elimination.

Nervous disorders can also cause yellowing of diarrhea, especially if they continue for a long time and regularly. The release of special hormones in a non-stop mode makes the intestinal walls constantly irritated, as a result of which there is a constant urge to defecate.

The danger of the desired pathological condition is that it is very difficult to get rid of it without the help of a specialist. In addition, even if you go to the doctor immediately with complaints of diarrhea, it will take some time, before the doctor realizes that the desired disorder is based on psychogenic factors categories.

If you have recently had bowel surgery, or other organ of the gastrointestinal tract, you may also have a bowel movement, and see yellow diarrhea. In this situation, there is no danger, while the rehabilitation period lasts, the chair can take on the desired shade more than once.

Another case in which your bowel movements may turn yellow is the development of dysentery. The disease occurs when infected with some varieties of Shigella, and is accompanied by yellow diarrhea, as well as the following other manifestations:

• temperature;
• pain in the abdomen that resembles labor pains.

In a situation in which one of the above diseases occurs, the treatment will be carried out adequately to the specific disease. You cannot eliminate its consequences on your own, since the doctor must determine all the features and the nuances of conservative therapy, choosing the drugs that you can use, or vice versa, it is forbidden.

The only exception is dysbiosis. If yellow diarrhea is observed in an adult, you do not have to do anything. However, if the desired disorder has affected the child's body, it is better to take the following measures:

• transfer the baby to a diet of foods that have a beneficial effect on the intestines (for example, from cereals);
• drink it with probiotics.

Watery orange stool

When a bright orange color of feces occurs, the causes of the following groups can be suspected:

• natural and physiological, not requiring any emphasis;
• serious internal violations.

1. So, the first group includes a one-time excessive consumption of foods that contain carotene (for example, carrots). Of course, this condition cannot be called a pathology; after a while, the color will return to normal.
   

   Carotene-rich foods can cause fecal discoloration

2. In the second case, orange diarrhea of ​​the consistency of water appears in conditions requiring urgent medical attention, namely, when:

• any liver disease has passed into a dangerous stage of development;
• there was a malfunction and damage to the pancreas;
• the patient has developed cystitis and will soon begin to bother him not only during bowel movements, but also when urinating;
• stomach ulcer develops.

In any case, we recommend that you act according to the following rules:

• if orange diarrhea is accompanied by pain and other symptoms, you need to go to the doctor;
• provided that you remembered that you ate carotene-containing foods, wait two to three days, excluding the desired food from the menu until the orange color goes away and the color of the stool is normalized (in this case, you can not see a doctor address);
• if you ate carrots, waited a few days, but the feces remained the same color, you also need to go to the hospital.

White watery diarrhea

Defecation with liquid diarrhea of ​​white or beige color unambiguously indicates the development of pathologies inside the intestine. Let's consider which ones.

First of all, with a similar manifestation, the so-called proctitis is suspected. - inflammation of the mucous walls of the inner surface of the rectum. The disease in question will necessarily be accompanied by some additional symptoms, since our body, being a single system, reacts completely to local pathologies:

• an increase in temperature;
• anemia;
• deterioration or complete loss of appetite;
• skin rashes;
• losing weight;
• lacrimation, etc.

It should be said that proctitis does not arise by itself. In addition, it is quite often a consequence of some other pathology, but it can also accompany food allergies, poisoning, etc.

The second reason for the formation of white liquid diarrhea is intestinal candidiasis. This is a fungal disease that occurs when the quantitative ratio of microflora of the following type is disturbed:

• useful;
• opportunistic.

You will need to treat candidiasis with antifungal drugs. The disease in question has an average degree of danger, therefore, you should still consult a doctor in a timely manner.

Provided that a malfunction of the gallbladder has occurred in your body, diarrhea may also appear. Moreover, if in many other cases diarrhea with water is not accompanied by any smell, then with this pathology you will feel an intolerable stench. Unfortunately, the cause of such a violation is often the oncology of the gallbladder, or the ducts extending from it to the liver, therefore, it is necessary to respond to the onset of the disease in a timely manner.

Another disease in which white diarrhea often occurs in the form of water is cholera. Previously, this disease instilled fear in people, since it was not treated, today it is no less dangerous due to severe consequences, but it is curable in stationary conditions.

The color transition of stool shades characteristic of the desired disease is as follows:

• sharply green;
• yellow-green;
• whitish.

In addition, nausea and vomiting pursue a patient with cholera. Be careful, at the first sign, you must immediately notify the doctor. It is very important for cholera to maintain the water balance, as well as salt, and give the patient mineral water without gas, since white diarrhea for this disease looks like you are urinating from the anus.

Diarrhea with water of different shades of red

Provided that your feces suddenly turn red, you should re-think about the products that you recently consumed. Overdoing it with beets, you can easily achieve a similar effect, and be scared of it, although in fact there is nothing wrong with it.

If coloring products were not used in the recent past, the reasons can be much more serious, so like, red is a sign of the presence of blood in feces, the source of which is located close to the anal hole. So, we are talking about:

• peptic ulcer disease (bleeding opens in ulcers - deformed areas of the intestinal mucosa or stomach);
• diverticulitis - an inflammatory process affecting the internal mucous membranes of the intestine, in which organ perforation also occurs, hence the bleeding;
• Crohn's disease - a granulomatous disease that affects various parts of the intestine, provoking the formation of ulcers and scarring.

In any of the above options, the consequences can be fatal in a short time, therefore, having defecated with feces with any shade of red, go to the hospital immediately.

Black liquid feces

Blackening of stool can also be triggered by three main groups of causes:

• the use of coloring food;
• taking appropriate medications;
• bleeding of the upper segments of the digestive system.

Reason # 1. Provided that you find black feces in the toilet at the end of the act of defecation, you need to do the following: remember if you have consumed coloring products. Their list is extensive, so, stool can turn black from:

• prunes;
• grenade;
• low quality red wine;
• strong coffee;
• dark grapes;
• other products that may stain faeces.

If this is what caused the blackening, wait 2-3 days, and the color will return to normal.

Reason # 2. The second group of reasons implies staining of feces due to the reaction of the masses with substances that make up the preparations for anemia, peptic ulcer, and other diseases, that is:

• iron-containing;
• bismuth-containing, etc.

In this case, a change in the color of feces is also the norm, a few days after the termination of the course of taking the drug, the stool is normalized.

However, you need to pay attention to the following fact: when taking the desired drugs, feces acquire rather a more viscous consistency, therefore, the likely reason for the dilution of feces lies in something otherwise.

Reason number 3. Loose stools and black feces can cause bleeding in the esophagus and stomach. The black color is given by nothing more than oxidized blood that has accumulated in the intestines. The desired symptom is evidence of a very dangerous condition, which should be taken seriously and see a doctor.

Treatment of water consistency diarrhea with conventional medicine

As we have already repeated many times, self-medication is a big risk, completely unjustified in the context of what (what kind of disease) diarrhea with water may end up with. We categorically do not recommend that you resort to this option, it is allowed only in those conditions under which you do not have the opportunity to see a doctor.

It makes no sense to recommend specific drugs in this situation, because at home to carry out a reliable definition of the disease is impossible, especially if you do not have the corresponding education. Self-treatment in this case will mean relieving symptoms, and stopping diarrhea in order to prevent dehydration.

First group drugs fights pain syndrome that occurs with diarrhea. They're called antispasmodics and help to relax smooth intestinal muscles. Among the most popular antispasmodics today:

• "No-shpa";
• Drotaverin;
• "Papaverine";
• "Spazmol", etc.

The second group of drugs is absorbents, the action of which has the following focus:

• absorption and elimination of toxic substances accumulated by the intestines;
• stool seal.

Today, new enterosorbent preparations with high efficiency have also been added, for example:

• Polysorb;
• Enterosgel, etc.

Provided that a small child suffers from diarrhea, probiotics can be added to the above remedies that will help restore the baby's intestinal microflora.

Next, we list the important rules that must be followed during conservative therapy.

1. So, if you find an open diarrhea, you need to wait a few hours. Only if it does not pass will it be necessary to use medicines. By the way, they are given only once. Provided that the diarrhea continues, you can give a second time and go to the doctor.
2. Diarrhea is stressful for the body. It will be good if the patient prefers bed rest for a few days to work and regains strength. Provided that diarrhea is a complication of the disease, hospitalization may be required.
3. It is necessary to maintain the water and electrolyte balance in the body. So, it is recommended to use:

• medicinal, table mineral water;
• the drug rehydron mixed with water;
• in a hospital, the patient is given a dropper with the necessary solutions.

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Let's summarize

The so-called indigestion is a phenomenon that everyone experiences in life many times, since, unfortunately, it is natural for an imperfect human body. However, sometimes diarrhea that appears should be of concern to you, as it manifests itself due to the development of various diseases inside your body. This is more precisely related to diarrhea with water, since it characterizes a serious violation of the absorbing function of the intestine.

Do not self-medicate, consult a doctor immediately, and soon you will be able to return to a normal, healthy life again.