Causes, symptoms and tratment of diarrhea

Diarrhea is a condition when the intestinal peristalsis faster than usual, so spending more watery bowel movement frequency and more. Usually diarrhea is not a disease gravity unless resulting in dehydration and ultimately occur hypovolemic shock (dropnya body due to lack of fluids).

Cause

This can occur due to food poisoning, bacterial infection, stress the mind, and many other factors. Diarrhea is usually self-limiting because real diarrhea itself is the body's mechanism for removing toxins and bacteria in the intestines. In young children, most causes of diarrhea are due to viruses so that it is able to heal itself. But because of the many body fluids are wasted, the patient should drink plenty of fluids and anti-diarrheal medication can be taken if the diarrhea already interfere with daily activities. For the case of prolonged diarrhea (more than 2 weeks) there may be other underlying diseases, such as HIV / AIDS, cancer of the digestive tract area.

symptom

It should be noted when the diarrhea becomes severe.

• Signs of dehydration such as pee thick and yellow, micturition frequency of less than 4 times per day, fever, sunken eyes, dry skin. In children characteristic dehydration is: cry but not the tears, fussy kids (for moderate dehydration) or rather weak (in children with severe dehydration), wants much to drink (for moderate dehydration), or may even lazy drink (in severe dehydration)
• Diarrhea Persists over 2 weeks
• cramps
• Stomach ache
• bloating
• Nausea
• Fever
• Gag
• Diarrhea usually goes away on its own within 48 hours without medication. The most important thing to do is to stay hydrated while walking just what their diarrhea and avoid foods that will make the diarrhea becomes more like eating food spicy, fibrous foods

Diarrhea is considered severe when:

• Lasted over 2 weeks
• Severe stomach cramps or pain in the rectum
• Blood in the stool
• Black stools
• The presence of fever
• The existence of signs of dehydration

Symptoms of diarrhea can be a sign of conditions such as infections, irritable bowel disease, pancreatitis, bowel cancer, or a decrease in immune conditions, for example in patients with HIV / AIDS.

Treatment

Treat dehydration with ORS or drinking lots of water in large quantities. If followed by nausea and vomiting, the drinks would not be able to sign, whereas the intake of water (hydration) is very important to prevent dehydration. Then, immediately went to the doctor to be given intravenous fluids (IVs)

In addition, there are several types of treatment for diarrhea

• Drug to bind water so that the stool is solid, such as drugs attalpulgit
• Medication to stop intestinal peristalsis such as papaverine or antiparasimpatik
• Antibiotics or antiparasitic when obtained stool examination in the form of a bacterial infection or a parasitic infection like amoeba (dr. Ursula)