What can I do with diarrhea at home?

Information on what to do with diarrhea at home can help people suffering from an intestinal disorder.

Diarrhea( diarrhea) is a pathological condition in which the activity of the muscles of the intestinal wall increases due to irritating factors: chemicals, bacteria, excessive stress or diseases of the digestive system.

Diarrhea is manifested by a frequent stool containing a large amount of fluid.

Symptomatology and pathogenesis of diarrhea

Severe diarrhea in an adult and especially in a young child should be alerted,, caused by the disease, can be hazardous to health.

To understand whether it is possible to cope with an intestinal disorder at home, you need to assess the extent of manifestation of the symptoms of the pathology.

The main symptoms of diarrhea:

• dyspepsia disorder - nausea, in some cases vomiting;
• pain in the intestine;
• liquid abundant cal - stool 10 - 25 times a day;
• dehydration - dryness of the oral mucosa and lips;
• intoxication - lethargy, drowsiness, fever, headache.

Before deciding what to do with the onset of diarrhea at home, you need to identify the underlying cause that caused the disease.

The etiology of an intestinal disorder is quite extensive - from infections to digestive disorders.

Diarrhea due to an infectious disease occurs more often in a child( less often in an adult).

Infection with pathogenic microorganisms( bacteria, viruses or protozoa) occurs with the use of contaminated substandard food or unboiled water.

Non-compliance with personal hygiene rules also leads to the spread of infection and diarrhea.

In order not to get sick, you need to wash your hands thoroughly after returning from the street, especially if there were soil works and games in the sandbox.

Hygiene procedures should be carried out before meals and after going to the toilet. Spending time on the playground, you need to ensure that the baby does not gnaw toys that fell to the ground or belong to other children.

In addition to infectious factors, diarrhea can develop due to diseases of the digestive system, namely due to chronic pancreatitis, gallbladder pathology and irritable bowel syndrome.

Intestinal disorders that arise due to physiological problems are mainly manifested in an adult.

The patient can feel the urge to the toilet 1-2 hours after eating, while the stool has a mushy consistency.

Patients suffering from diarrhea physiological type, quickly lose weight, as the process of digestion and assimilation of nutritional components they are violated.

Therapy of diarrhea with enterosorbents and stimulants of opioid receptors

For the treatment of diarrhea at home, pharmacy products of different groups are used, one of them is enterosorbents.

Drugs bind and remove from the gastrointestinal tract toxic compounds that enter the body with food or through carelessness, and the waste pathogens that they release during development.

If diarrhea was caused by poor-quality food, poisonous compounds or medicines, then at the beginning of treatment it is necessary to make a solution of Smecta powder: in a liquid form, the drug will act much faster. Smectu is taken to treat acute and chronic forms of diarrhea.

The main advantage of this remedy is that it is allowed for use by children, pregnant women and breastfeeding women.

Adults during the day should take 6 packets of medication. For children, to make diarrhea recede, 2 powders are sufficient.

The minimum duration of treatment is 3 days, if necessary, the drug should be consumed longer at the discretion of the treating doctor.

Another affordable and cheap medicine for treating diarrhea that can be taken at home is Activated Carbon.

The product effectively copes with intestinal disorders and binds toxic components, thereby reducing the rate of their absorption by the intestinal wall.

The next group of diarrhea remedies are stimulants of opioid receptors in the intestine, which help reduce the intensity of peristaltic movements.

Their main representatives are medicines containing loperamide, such as Diara, Imodium, Suprilol and other analogues. Their cost is not too high.

Drugs against diarrhea containing loperamide, enhance the tone of the sphincter of the rectum and reduce the volume of fluid entering the intestine.

The effect of drugs comes quickly, its duration is about 6 hours, so receptor stimulators are convenient for taking in the way.

Drugs from the receptor stimulant group are effective for the treatment of diarrhea caused by increased intestinal motility, but with infectious disorders they should not be taken.

Means normalizing the intestinal microflora

Probiotic medicines are prescribed for the treatment of diarrhea due to intestinal dysbacteriosis.

The most frequent violation of the optimal ratio of useful microflora occurs as a result of inappropriate nutrition, uncontrolled intake of antibacterial drugs or the use of poor-quality products. Drugs from the probiotic group are represented by different price categories.

Probiotics are made from active microorganisms that represent the normal microflora of the human intestine, lactobacilli, bifidobacteria, intestinal rods and so on.

The most common probiotics:

• Bifiform - contains enterococci and bifidobacteria. The drug is available in the form of capsules, insoluble by gastric juice. It is allowed for treatment of adults and children over 2 years old;
• Enterol - contains a lyophilizate of saccharomycetes. The drug has an antimicrobial and immunomodulatory effect;
• Hilak forte - contains the products of the vital activity of useful intestinal organisms. Available in the form of drops. Hilak forte is prescribed to patients of any age for the treatment of various pathological conditions of the intestines: diarrhea, constipation, flatulence and so on;
• Probifor - contains bifidobacteria and activated carbon. Thanks to coal, useful bacteria are fixed on the walls of the intestine;
• Acipol - contains lactobacilli and kefir fungi. The drug is prescribed to patients from 3 years of age;
• Bifikol - contains E. coli and bifidobacteria. It is used to treat acute intestinal infection. Children Bifikol allowed to take half a year;
• Bactisubtil - contains bacilli. The drug is used to treat dysbiosis and diarrhea caused by various causes.

Usually, probiotics are prescribed for treatment of gastrointestinal diseases after taking a course of taking antibiotics.

But some drugs( for example, Lineks) can and should be drunk with antibacterial drugs to prevent the development of dysbiosis and, as a consequence, diarrhea.

Antibiotic drugs for the treatment of diarrhea

Antibiotics are an important group of drugs for the treatment of an intestinal disorder, but they should not be taken without a doctor's prescription.

Furazolidone is an effective bacteriostatic and antimicrobial agent that can cope with diarrhea in adults with giardiasis, enterocolitis, salmonellosis.

This medication can not be taken by children, pregnant or breast-feeding women.

For the treatment of diarrhea, children are more often prescribed Enterofuril, which is an antimicrobial drug. Its main action is directed to the oppression of pathogens and the removal of manifestations of intestinal distress.

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Enterofuril is allowed to take children one month after birth. The drug is produced in different forms. For the treatment of diarrhea in adults, capsules are used, and in children - suspension.

The next drug is Stopdiar. It is a cheaper analogue of Enterofuril.

The positive quality of the listed drugs is that they do not penetrate the intestinal wall into the bloodstream, they act in the space of the intestine and do not have a mirror manifestation.

Treatment of GI disorders by these drugs is more preferable than other antibiotics.

One of the old generation antibiotics of a wide spectrum of action is tetracycline. The drug is absorbed from the intestine and enters the bloodstream.

If tetracycline is taken uncontrolled, then pathogenic microorganisms gradually develop resistance to it.

This medicinal product can be prescribed only by the attending physician after collection of analyzes, detection of the causative agent of the disease and determination of its sensitivity to the drug.

This strong preparation is very effective for the treatment of dangerous intestinal infections, but it is not necessary to take it alone at home.

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Tetracycline has side effects: allergies, candidiasis, lack of appetite and pain in the stomach. The drug is contraindicated for pregnant and lactating women and children under 8 years of age.

Drugs for the treatment of diarrhea at home are many, but only doctors can prescribe strong medicines, since they have side effects.