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Diarrhea is a disease characterized by a soft stool and fluid, often accompanied by seizures stomach.Diarrhea never indiscriminately, it can affect anyone, male or female, old or young.Diarrhea often considered a trivial disease, whereas the national level and globalization facts notes otherwise.According to WHO records, diarrhea kills two million children in the world every year.Do not underestimate the diarrhea especially in children.Diarrhea, especially in severe disease may not like cancer or heart disease.But, diarrhea in infants and toddlers is very dangerous because it can cause death due to lack of fluids.
Babies and toddlers will diarrhea.Development vulnerable to digestive and immune systems are not yet optimal body they are prone to cause diarrhea from bacteria or virus.Important to watch out for in people with diarrhea is the possibility of dehydration (lack of body fluids). Fluids and electrolytes your body a lot out with feces and the body difficult to function.
Cause diarrhea:
1.Infection from various bacteria that caused by the consumption of food or drinking water.
2.Infection variety of viruses.
3.Food allergies, especially milk or lactose (milk-containing foods).
4.Parasite that enters the body through food or drink dirty.
5. A good waste management food that is not contaminated insects (flies, cockroaches, lice, roach).
6.Throw feces and urine in place, should use latrines with septic tanks.
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Although many anti-diarrhea medicine are sold freely and relatively safe, but there are a few things to note that no one use it:
-Giving rehydration fluids and salt sugar solution is to be preferred if the amount of fluid lost quite a lot.
Drug Antidiarrhoeals-absorbent groups can be used to speed up healing and provides the fluid / oralit.If in two days did not recover, the drug should be stopped and immediately aske doctor helps.
-When lenders and diarrhea accompanied by blood, drug Antidiarrhoeals not be in a hurry, because interfere with the evacuation of germs.In this situation, ask your doctor to doctor the disease properly handled.
-Allow sufficient time distance when to use other drugs.
-Babies, the elderly and pregnant women are a special group should be treated with extra carefully, so that the use of drugs Antidiarrhoeals doctor should ask for advice early first.First action to do at home is the provision of drinking or salt sugar solution.
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- Pectin: a soluble fiber that come from an apple and orange.Is commonly used mix with Antidiarrhoeals,such as attapulgite or kaolin.Pektin function as mass enhancer and can soften the stools and hardened feces.
-Activated carbon (activated charcoal): This drug has good absorption and are generally used for first aid in case of poisoned.Same like attapulgite, activated carbon is not absorbed into the blood,systematically so safe enough.
-Bismuth subsalisilat: this drug to overcome the various disorders digestion.Bismuth system functions as absorbent and reduces the secretion of fluid in the gut mucosa.
-Extracts of plants: few natural materials such as turmeric extract, the guava leaves are often used to overcome this diarrhea.Ingredients contain tannins that can protect the mucosa and reduce the liquid in the intestine mucosa.
-Loperamid: These drugs include the opiod (narcotic). Loperamid Only very few reach the brain tissue so as to avoid central effects and not cause addiction.
-Probiotics: Lactobacillus contains good bacteria that keep functioning balanced microorganisms in intestine.Usage broad-spectrum antibiotics can disrupt the balance of microorganisms and cause diarrhea.
-Antibiotics: most active diarrhea caused by viruses that do not need antibiotics.But frequent mistakes made by the public and even physicians themselves are in a hurry given antibiotics.Given antibiotics in the long run to patients can cause germs resistance to antibiotics.
There are several groups of drugs given to treat diarrhea, among others:
Rehydration fluids: fluids to prevent dehydration is an important treatment in the face diarrhea.How to with drinking water in sufficient quantities to replace the fluids lost, but do not replace salts and electrolytes are usually too wasted when diarrhea .
Antidiarrhoeals: used to reduce the frequency of diarrhea so that everyday activities can be conducted, in addition to reducing fluid loss.In outlined consists of 2 groups, namely the group of anti peristalticand absorbent peristaltic.Absorbent class work with absorb water and other toxins such as diarrhea, virus and maybe bacteria.Anti peristaltis class may slow peristaltis work peristaltis bowel movements so that the absorption of fluid occurs better.
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