Cures And Remedies For Diarrhea
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Easy as a teaspoon and a pinch!
Angela R. in NOLA -
A teaspoon of flour and a pinch of salt. Dab your fingers in this mixture once or twice for instant relief! Has worked for years! No water needed!!!
Sep 01, 2009
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Chocolate!!
Jess in New York -Yeah I'm a girl, and girls love chocolate. But seriously, it works. Chocolate is naturally binding, my grandmother told me this after a very long car trip left me sick as a dog. I ate a handful of m&m's, and within an hour I was fine. Now whenever my stomach is upset, I eat a small amount of chocolate. May not work for everyone, but hey, it's worth a shot!
Aug 16, 2009
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Sugar & salt Solution
Joey in South Africa -
1 cup of boiled water cooled down. 1 teaspoon of sugar and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Stir and drink.
Aug 03, 2009
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Coconut Macaroon Cookies
Joanne in USA -I eat 2 cookies in the morning and 2 at night, plus pineapple chunks. I have Microscopic colitis, and this works for me.
Aug 01, 2009
2 Yes
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Symptomatology
R.Gopi in Chennai India -Observe whether the stooling is repeated several times within an hour. The below natural solutions work for very mild semi solid diarrhea on account of poor food.
Infectious causes like amebiasis cannot be stopped even with loperamide, the liquid stools just continue.
For mild diarrhea ranging 1-3 times any natural remedy or fasting etc works. In case of acute diarrhea with dehydration you need to go on a combination of antibiotics and rehydration, consult your doc, if your condition is severe it may warrant a hospitalisation for a day or two on IV antibiotics and dextrose.
If it is moderate to severe a combination of metronidazole, doxycycline/cipro, with stool softeners like cadotril or even imodium, with probiotics works.
Stibs is a product of smithkline which has saccharomyces boulardii, it is a proven antidiarrheal in case of even severe AIDS related diarrhea. It is an extract from the litchi tree.
Jul 20, 2009
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Old Day Way
John j in Gurnee, il -All you have to do is fix a cup of water put some flour in the water with a dash of salt it should work in no time
Feb 23, 2009
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Rice water
jeri rivas in moreno valley,ca,u.s.a. -
Put some warm or hot water in a pan pour in some dry white rice into the pan and when the rice is almost about done pour the rice water into a cup sweeten it or not it will work!
Jul 03, 2008
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This is proven to work!
Lindsay in Indiana -I am a dietitian, and work often with patients who have diarrhea as a side effect of various diseases. The "BRAT" diet IS PROVEN to work. Dietitians have been using it for decades.
B: bananas
R: rice
A: apples/applesauce
T: toast
The best method is to fast for a short amount of time, then slowly add small amounts of the foods listed above. Be sure to continue drinking plenty of water from the get go. It is very easy to get dehydrated with diarrhea.
Jun 16, 2008
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Flush it out naturally
M.R. in Saudi Arabia -Diarrhea is usually caused by something in your system that your body is trying to eject. Why not help the body flush it out by drinking lots and lots of water? As opposed to trapping the poison in your stomach with immodium or bread or the likes.
It may be a bit unpleasant but drinking a litre of room-tempurature water and then going to the bathroom, repeating as many times as necessary (usually 3-4 times within 2 hours) helps your body flush out the poison.
You will know its finished when you do any of the following:
pass gas
urinate
pass solid stools
I had a fried who was down for days taking medicine, in extreme stomach pain. He was taking medicine to STOP the diarrhea, while his body triggered the diarrhea to flush out the poison. I told him about this remedy, he followed it and within two hours he was up and about, refreshed with a regular appetite once again.
It has worked for me and my family numerous times over the years.
Sometimes we are looking for something convenient, to stop the diarrhea, because we need to be active for work or whatever, but stopping up your stomach can be painful and more harmful to your system in the long run!
Apr 30, 2008
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Naturall fruit tannins
Terry in Gaston SC -This is an old remedy passed on to me by my grandmother, when you have a case of the green apple trots, peel a ripe apple, set it out on the counter for 1/2 hour, let it start turning brown, the brown is a natural tannin that works better at stopping the runs, than immodium has ever worked for me, and you can not taste the tannins on the apple.
Dec 12, 2007
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Moroccan remedy
Jas in Canada -Pour boiling hot water over oregano leaves (preferably fresh but dried is okay), add a spoonful of sugar, wait for it too cool a bit, then drink up! Ladies, this works for period cramps too.
Nov 23, 2007
5 Yes
3 No
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