How to treat acute diarrhea

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Diarrhea, if the number of defecation more than three times a day, and the discharge is thin stool, the weight of defecation is more than 200 grams, the moisture content in the stool accounts for more than 80%, this situation can be considered as acute diarrhea. Acute diarrhea can be caused by eating unclean food, treatment is often symptomatic and the combination of cause. Dehydration or electrolyte disorder should be corrected in time, such as replenishing body fluid or body salt.

How to treat acute diarrhea

First: the treatment of acute diarrhea can be due to treatment, for example, antibiotics are used for anti infection drugs caused by infection. If it is caused by lactose intolerance, lactose in food should be excluded. The other is symptomatic treatment, because malnutrition caused diarrhea should be corrected in time, for water electrolyte disorder should be adjusted in time.

Second: after the onset of diarrhea, we should also actively use mucosal preparations to protect the intestinal mucosa. If there has been a phenomenon of flora imbalance, bifidobacteria can also be selected to regulate the intestinal flora. Diarrhea should be based on the specific diarrhea phenomenon reasonable selection of antidiarrheal agents.

Third: the treatment of diarrhea can not be blind medication, for example, although atropine can have antispasmodic effect, effective for diarrhea caused by gastrointestinal spasm, but if it is suffering from glaucoma or prostatic hypertrophy, people can not use atropine. If diarrhea is serious, drug sensitivity test should be done when treatment, so that the treatment can be targeted.

matters needing attention

For patients with diarrhea caused by pain, there is something worthy of attention, can not blindly use analgesics or antidiarrheal drugs. Because analgesic or antidiarrheal drugs are easy to cover up the root cause of diarrhea, which is not conducive to the treatment of the primary disease of diarrhea.