Understanding Diarrhea Symptom

Diarrhea can occur in each person and take a sudden. Almost every person has diarrhea minimal once a year. Environment healthy and not bad, bad sanitation, and waste is often a cause of the emergence of diarrhea. The existence of some insects like fly and cockroach is also a factor as the disease carrier.

Diarrhea Causal Factors

Diarrhea can be caused by infection of bacteria, viruses, parasites or due to eating the wrong cause digestive disturbances (maldigesti), and the result of excessive antibiotic use, particularly antibiotic to overcome the infection on the respiratory tract.

The bacteria cause diarrhea
E.coli, Vibrio cholera, Salmonella, Shigella dysentriae, Kampilobakter, Aeromonas and Yersinia.

The virus causes diarrhea
Diarrhea diseases can also be caused by a virus rotavirus and other enteric viruses.

The parasite causes diarrhea
In addition, diarrhea can also be caused by parasites such as amoeba, fungi and worms.

Symptoms of diarrhea

Fever accompanied with feces and bloody lenders. There was a change in the form of a liquid feces with frequency more than 3 times. Feces form of diarrhea can be manifold. Feces liquid from the mushy, lenders with the feces and blood. And additional complaints such as fever, heartburn, nausea, and vomiting.

Diarrhea treatment

If you experience diarrhea, you should try not to lack of fluid electrolyte body. For that, a drink containing electrolyte needed to be given. Can be given to drink a mixture of sugar and salt.

Isotonic beverages is not recommended to be given to people with diarrhea. Because isotonic drink is to replace the fluid and electrolyte out through sweat during exercise. If dehydration is severe and the patient can not drink due to nausea and vomiting, the need to be taken to the hospital, to get the liquid to infuse the dehydration.

Treatment of diarrhea is a common issue with the bacteria / tocsin causes diarrhea so gut back to normal and the diarrhea stopped, keeping the balance of attention to body fluids.

Anti-biotic can be given if the diarrhea is caused by bacterial infection, to kill the bacteria causes diarrhea. Because not all diarrhea is caused by bacteria, so not all treatment using antibiotic diarrhea.

Other drugs can be given to cure symptoms that accompany the diarrhea, such as fever or vomiting. If nausea and vomiting and heartburn is, be given anti-convulsive medication intestine (antispasmodic)

Immediately stop the medicine if diarrhea has stopped.

Diarrhea Medicines Type

Medicine type for diarrhea in the market, among others:

Feces hardening agent drug, as absorben / protectan, such as attapulgite, pectin / kaolin, smectit, charcoal, ispagula husk, and cholesteramin. Some products combine attapulgite with pectin.

Other drugs, namely: anti-cholinergic / anti-spasmodic (klidinium, hisosiamin, mebeverin), Opiate sintetic / natural (codeine, loperamid, difenoksilat / antropine)

This medicine is broad and can be purchased freely. But the dose should be use. If no change, or become severe diarrhea, patients should still get to the doctor for further handling.