Diarrhea medicine to eat right?
Although diarrhea occurs throughout the year, but the summer season was particularly high, it can cause malnutrition, vitamin deficiency, anemia, reduced body resistance. Diarrhea, the body has not only lost a lot of water and nutrients, but also the loss of a large number of electrolytes such as sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, etc., if the loss exceeds a certain limit, there will be electrolyte imbalance, acid-base poisoning may also occur.
Treatment of diarrhea, the most important thing is the right medicine. Infectious diarrhea has divided and non-infectious, infectious diarrhea is caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites and other pathogens cause, such as bacillary dysentery, bacterial food poisoning, viral enteritis, etc.; non-infectious diarrhea is common in cold, indigestion, gastrointestinal disorders, and hyperthyroidism, diabetes, uremia and other systemic diseases. Infectious diarrhea is a reflection of human self-protection, so as to be excreted part of the toxin, beneficial to humans, if the blind diarrhea, the disease transferred to the contrary, negative. In principle, antidiarrheal medicine is only applicable to non-infectious diarrhea and infectious diarrhea in general do not have, especially in the acute phase, inflammation and poisoning symptoms (such as high fever) than obvious, pus and blood will be higher when the antidiarrheal agents should be considered the absolute taboo; to the recovery, the condition significantly improved stool without sepsis, but only the water more, they can take short-term antidiarrheal agents.
Second, pay attention to pathogenesis of different drugs are different. If it is growing fast due to peristalsis, such as hyperthyroidism, diabetes, gastrointestinal disorders, etc., should be preferred peristalsis inhibitors, to extend the residence time of intestinal contents, which will help absorb moisture and diarrhea, if it is caused by the increase in intestinal secretion diarrhea, such as cholera, bacterial food poisoning, you can choose an astringent and absorbent, by inhibiting intestinal secretion and absorption of harmful toxins play a role in diarrhea. If it is due to mucosal inflammation and ulceration leading to increased seepage caused by diarrhea, mucosal protective agents may choose to protect the mucosa to remove bacteria, viruses and toxins. Due to gut microflora in infants caused by diarrhea and antibiotic-associated diarrhea, probiotics should be preferred, through the intestinal probiotic supplement to restore intestinal micro-ecological balance, serve to adjust the gastrointestinal tract function and antidiarrheal effect. Some diarrhea is not caused by one single factor, it is desirable that appropriate combination therapy.
Third, the diarrhea is only a symptomatic treatment, the treatment is a fundamental cause. Therefore, the diarrhea rehydration at the same time, do not neglect the primary disease treatment. If it is infectious diarrhea, antibiotic sensitivity should be used to control infection. In general, there is high fever, mucus and white blood cells will be increased in sepsis, bacterial infections, the possibility of large, to the regular use of antibiotics. Without fever, yellow and white water will not dilute the higher, more non-bacterial infections, in which case If you use antibiotics, not only the symptoms of abdominal pain and diarrhea, can not be effectively alleviated, and may cause drug-induced gastrointestinal reaction, or to kill eliminate the intestinal bacteria, but result in gastrointestinal disorders; if it is indigestion caused by eating should start conditioning; if it is caused by gastrointestinal disorders, autonomic nervous function in regulating alternative medicines and sedatives and so on.
Antidiarrheal agent overdose can cause abdominal distension, constipation, intestinal pseudo-obstruction. Infectious diarrhea taking antidiarrheal agents, can mask the disease, affecting doctors to diagnose. Bacillary dysentery patients taking antidiarrheal agents often affect the intestinal excretion of bacteria and toxins, so that sera aggravate the symptoms, course of disease extension. Acute ulcerative colitis with antidiarrheal agents, can induce toxic megacolon and intestinal perforation. In addition, the compound diphenoxylate, codeine and other containing narcotic ingredients, long-term use can be addictive, it must be used with caution.