Diarrhea is a frequent and fluid stool, which can be accompanied by flatulence and spasms in the abdomen. This phenomenon is quite dangerous, since it can lead to a strong disruption of the water-salt balance in the body. That is why, if an adult has diarrhea, you need to identify its causes and begin treatment.
Causes of diarrhea in adults
The main causes of diarrhea in adults are:
- intolerance to certain foods;
- taking certain medications (eg, antiarrhythmics);
- a sharp change in climatic conditions and diet;
- strong stress, excitement or fright.
Very often, a loose stool occurs with mild food poisoning. Typically, such a diarrhea, it takes 1-3 days. In case of severe poisoning, the fever and high fever are added to the painful sensations.
The causes of chronic diarrhea in an adult can be more serious. Diarrhea is caused by:
- inflammatory diseases of the digestive system (hepatitis, gastritis, ulcers);
- Crohn's disease and other gastrointestinal diseases of unclear etiology;
- intestinal flu ;
- functional failure of organs;
- toxic damage (eg, mercury poisoning).
With such diseases, in addition to the liquid stool, the patient has spastic abdominal pain, flatulence and a strong swelling.
The causes of temperature and diarrhea in the adult are also such surgical pathologies as polyps and intestinal tumors.
Severe diarrhea can occur as a result of a violation of the qualitative or quantitative composition of the intestinal microflora, for example, with dysbacteriosis.
The reasons for the appearance of a black diarrhea in an adult are internal bleeding after surgery on the stomach. In addition, this phenomenon often occurs with an ulcer of the intestine.
Diets with diarrhea
If the causes of prolonged diarrhea in an adult become intolerance to certain foods or a sudden change in climatic conditions, you need to fill the fluid loss and adhere to a special diet. In the first day the patient should drink black tea, decoction of bird cherry or thick blueberry jelly, and eat only a little dried white bread. After a while you can add baked apples, boiled and mashed potatoes and mucous porridges, for example, oatmeal.
In cases when an adult has chronic diarrhea, during treatment it is necessary to completely exclude from the diet:
- raw vegetables;
- beets;
- plum;
- apricots;
- figs;
- cold and carbonated drinks.
Treatment of diarrhea in an adult
If the reason that an adult occasionally has diarrhea in the morning, are food allergies, taking certain medications or GI disease, the patient should take sorbents . They will remove from the intestine fluid, gases, viruses, toxins. The most effective drugs in this group are:
- Activated carbon;
- Smecta;
- Sobeks;
- Enterosgel.
With diarrhea, the intestinal microflora undergoes changes. To restore it, you must take drugs containing particles of intestinal microorganisms or obligate intestinal flora. It can be:
- Hylak-forte;
- Narine;
- Linex.
To treat chronic diarrhea in adults, use should be made of agents that reduce intestinal secretion. It:
- Indomethacin;
- Diclofenac or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
With Crohn's disease and gastrointestinal diseases of unclear etiology more
- Metizred;
- Prednisolone.
Those who, in addition to diarrhea, there is a violation of absorption and cavitary digestion, it is better to take drugs that do not contain bile acids:
- Pancreatin;
- Creon;
- Mezim-forte;
- Pancetrate.