How to treat acute enteritis at home

Unregulated lifestyle and diet, cold drinks, alcohol, staying up late, and junk food are harming our health all the time and putting a great burden on our gastrointestinal tract. Many people suffer from gastroenteritis, but you never know when the disease will occur, so we all should have a way to deal with gastroenteritis. If we suddenly encounter acute enteritis at home, there will be no time to go to the hospital. How should acute enteritis be treated at home? What are some dietary suggestions for patients with acute enteritis?

Clinical manifestations

1. Abdominal pain: mostly located in the navel, with mild dull pain. There may be varying degrees of tenderness.

2. Diarrhea: The main symptoms vary in severity, with acute onset, several to more than 10 times a day, yellow watery stools, which may contain foam or a small amount of mucus. In severe cases, the stools may contain a small amount of pus and blood.

3. There are varying degrees of nausea, abdominal distension, headache, and weakness in the limbs. Severe diarrhea can lead to dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, and even shock.

4. Gastrointestinal symptoms: nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea. Vomiting has an acute onset, often preceded by nausea and followed by vomiting, with the vomitus mostly consisting of stomach contents. In severe cases, the patient may vomit bile or blood. Abdominal pain is most common in the upper and middle abdomen, and in severe cases may present as paroxysmal colic. Diarrhea is characterized by watery stools, which occur several to dozens of times a day, accompanied by a foul odor, and are mostly dark yellow or green in color, rarely contain pus and blood, and there is no feeling of urgency and heaviness in the stool.

5. The main symptoms are abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, fever, etc. In severe cases, it can lead to dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, shock, etc.

6. Patients often experience nausea and vomiting first, followed by diarrhea, 3 to 5 times a day, or even dozens of times a day. The stool is watery, dark yellow or green, and foul-smelling, and may be accompanied by abdominal cramps, fever, body aches, and other symptoms.

7. Physical signs: There may be no physical signs in early or mild cases. During physical examination, there may be mild tenderness in the upper abdomen or around the navel, and bowel sounds are often significantly hyperactive. Generally, the patient's disease course is short and the condition improves and heals itself within a few days.

How to treat acute enteritis at home?

1. You can first pay attention to drinking some hot porridge, keeping local warm, and eating some roasted garlic, which can mostly improve the condition. If the effect is not good, you need to go to the hospital for an abdominal examination and routine stool examination. If it is enteritis, use antibiotics to treat it.

2. You can apply hot compress to the abdomen, pay attention to a light diet, drink rice porridge, vegetable soup and other easily digestible foods, and go to the hospital for a check-up if necessary.

What should patients with acute enteritis pay attention to in their diet?

1. Eat more sour food. When gastric acid is secreted too much, you can eat milk, soy milk, bread or alkaline steamed bread to neutralize it. Atrophic gastritis usually causes too little gastric acid secretion. You can eat more concentrated broth, chicken soup, sour fruit juice, etc. to stimulate gastric juice secretion and help digestion.

2. Do not eat food that is too spicy, too hard, too spicy, too cold, too hot, or too rough. Because overly spicy, cold and hard foods can easily cause damage to the stomach and intestines, try not to eat them.

If you suddenly encounter acute enteritis at home and it is not convenient to go to the hospital, you should consider ways to treat enteritis at home. In daily life, you should pay more attention to your diet and daily routine. You should not wait until you get sick to treat it. You should take precautions before the disease occurs and nip it in the bud. In daily life, we must exercise more and take precautions, and we should also master some methods of dealing with acute diseases at home.