Diarrhea downed me for approximately three days, which includes a Sunday and two work days. Ironically, diarrhea has been a part of me since I was a child. I would almost always have diarrhea on a regular basis. Because of the frequency, I would sometimes ignore it and just go on with my usual day-to-day activities. However, this most recent attack rendered me very sick and, therefore, nonfunctional. Thanks to a dear doctor-friend (from the bottom of my heart), I was able to overcome the illness.
Because of the numerous times diarrhea hit me, I was able to collect some handy and nifty tips on how to manage diarrhea.
- If you have the luxury to stay at home, you only have to remember 3 things:
- Eliminate: The best way to get rid of diarrhea is to actually let the contents of your colon out. This is to allow the removal of the culprit that makes you sick. So sit it out and let everything pass.
- Rehydrate: In the process of eliminating the culprit, you will also eliminate needed materials in your system such as water and ions at a rapid rate. Because of this, you will need to replenish these by drinking rehydration fluids such as Gatorade.
- Rest: Most of all, rest can be a very big help on your way to healing.
- If you are too busy to stay at home and do #1, what you can do is to drink loperamide to prevent bowel movement and buy you some time to do #1.
Thanks for reading! 'Til next time!
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