Diarrhea Treatment Washington DC

Steps

1. Drink clear fluids - broth and juices - for the first twelve hours of your diarrhea.
2. Follow the BRAT diet - bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast. Green bananas are best for diarrhea.
3. Try to eat bland foods, such as chicken and Jell-O.
4. Limit insoluble fibers. Insoluble fibers are called "insoluble" because they do not dissolve in water. Insoluble fibers accelerate the movement of food through the GI tract. Soluble fibers, such as pectin (found in applesauce), slow the movement of food through the GI tract by forming a gel when combined with water. Soluble fibers have a property called viscosity, and fibers with a higher viscosity are more beneficial for diarrhea.
5. Try some yogurt. If the diarrhea is caused by antibiotics, yogurt with live cultures is often helpful to restore the balance in your digestive tract. Often the cause of antibiotic-related diarrhea is an overgrowth of the clostridium bacteria, and "good" bacteria often help keep that in check.
6. Eliminate foods that might be contributing to your diarrhea, such as high-fructose foods, sugar-free foods sweetened with sugar alcohols, and dairy products. Dairy products may worsen diarrhea in people who are not lactose-intolerant because food usually travels through the intestines more quickly during diarrhea, which may reduce the absorption of lactose. The unabsorbed lactose may then draw water into the bowels.
7. Drink herbal cleansing teas often. Cleansing tea consists of senna leaves, orange peels, lemongrass, orange flowers, mint, ginger pieces, tulsi, balm, apple blossoms and bay leaves.

Tips

• Having diarrhea for more than 1 week means you need to change your diet. If it still persists, call your doctor ASAP.
• If you have the urge to go, just go. We know it's disgusting but better out than in right? Do not hold it in as it the symptoms will get worse.

Warnings

• The foods you want to avoid is anything that makes you go to the bathroom. Do NOT eat beans or chocolate. This makes you go.
• When you are in the theaters, avoid the food.
• Pediatricians no longer use or recommend this method.

Things You'll Need

• A will power to avoid foods that make you go to the bathroom
• A bland diet

Article provided by wikiHow, a wiki how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to How to Treat Diarrhea (BRAT Diet Method). All content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons license.