What causes long-term diarrhea?

Diarrhea is the common name for diarrhoea. Frequent diarrhea must be a sign of illness in the body. So what causes long-term diarrhea? Is there any way we can cure long-term diarrhea? Only after we understand the cause of long-term diarrhea can we adopt different treatments according to the specific cause.

Long-term diarrhea is related to many factors. First of all, long-term diarrhea may be related to improper diet. If you often eat too oily or too cold food, it is easy to cause long-term diarrhea. Long-term diarrhea is also related to adverse stimulation and allergies.

What causes long-term diarrhea?

(1) Improper diet: Eating too much, too oily, or too cold food, frequently changing to new food, or eating spoiled food contaminated with bacteria or toxins can easily cause diarrhea in children. .

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(2) Adverse stimulation: Cold, overheating, bad mood, excessive stress or fright can also cause diarrhea.

(3) Allergic diarrhea: Diarrhea caused by eating foods that are prone to cause allergies.

(4) Others: such as nonspecific ulcerative colitis, glycogen diarrhea, etc.

Western medicine treatment

Antibiotics: For those who are clearly diagnosed with bacterial infection, antibiotics should be used promptly.

Astringent and antidiarrheal drugs: Use sodium subcarbonate, aluminum hydroxide gel or compound camphor tincture for symptomatic treatment.

Drugs to relieve intestinal spasms: Treatment is with compound diphenoxylate, atropine, propantheline or tincture of opium.

Physical therapy: Use field effect therapy device to treat the abdomen. However, bacterial infection needs to be excluded.

Hot compress: Placing a hot water bottle on the abdomen can help treat diarrhea.

Long-term diarrhea requires our attention. If we ignore symptoms such as long-term diarrhea, it will easily lead to the worsening of the disease. Then it will cause some more serious diseases and it will be very troublesome for us to treat it. The above article introduces the use of Western medicine to treat long-term diarrhea.