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Diarrhea is the condition of having

at least three loose or liquid bowel


Diarrhea
movements each day. It often lasts Why it happens and how to treat
for a few days and can result it?
in dehydration due to fluid loss.
Signs of dehydration often begin
with loss of the normal stretchiness
of the skin and irritable behaviour.
This can progress to
decreased urination, loss of skin
color, a fast heart rate, and
a decrease in responsiveness as it
becomes more severe.
OTC antidiarrheal medicines are also
Symptoms
available:
Bloating in your belly Loperamide (Imodium, for
example) is an antimotility drug
Cramps
that reduces stool passage.
Thin or loose stools, Watery Bismuth subsalicylate (for
stools example, Pepto-Bismol) reduces

An urgent feeling that you need


diarrheal stool output in adults and
to have a bowel movement children and may be a safer
alternative to loperamide.
Nausea and throwing up, etc

More serious symptoms include:

Blood or mucus in your stool


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AVOID DIARRHEA

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Diarrhea prevention


Causes Vaccination
Bacteria
Clean/safe drinking water
Viruses
. Parasitic organisms
Handwashing with soap (after
NO MILK DRINK TEA Other causes include:
deffecatio, after cleaning a child who
has defecated, before preparing food,
ORALIT CLEAN Allergies to certain foods and before eating)

Diabetes Mothers with young babies,


brestfeeding for the first 6 months of
Diseases of the intestines (such as life
Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis)
Good sanitation
Eating foods that upset the digestive
system For all cases of diarrhea, the first important
step in treatment is to rehydrate
There is some concern that antidiarrheal Infection by bacteria (the cause of Oral rehydration products are available
medications could prolong bacterial most types of food poisoning) or other commercially - for example Oralyte
organisms
infection by reducing the removal of
Fluids can be replaced by simply
pathogens via stools. Diarrhea may also follow constipation, drinking more fluids water
Antibiotics are only used to treat especially for people who have irritable
bowel syndrome. Oral rehydration solution/salts (ORS) -
diarrhea caused by a bacterial infection.
this is water that contains salt and
If the cause is a certain Lack of clean water glucose
medication, switching to another Certain food and drink might make
Cohabitation with animal
drug might be possible. the diarrhea worse:
Sugar-free gum, mints, sweet cherries,

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