How to treat diarrhea and abdominal pain?

Quite known symptoms - diarrhea and rezi in the abdomen - tend to signal the presence of an inflammatory process in the body. And the combination can meet both in children and adults as a result of food poisoning, intestinal infection or the presence of serious pathologies of the digestive tract. How to get rid of these symptoms in certain diseases, we will discuss later in the article.

What can cause diarrhea and abdominal pain

Most often, loose stools and abdominal pains are manifestations of intestinal infection. And a lot of microorganisms capable of exciting it:

• Pathogenic bacteria (intestinal and dysentery bacillus, staphylococcus, salmonella, typhoid fever),
• Viruses (rotaviruses, enteroviruses),
• Parasites (worms, lamblia, amoeba).

As a result of the activities of any of these uninvited guests, the work of the intestinal tract is disrupted, and the infected person has diarrhea and abdominal resuscitation. As you understand, it is necessary to treat in these cases not the symptoms, but the cause that caused them. For this, the patient needs to undergo a survey and clarify the cause of the trouble.

Salmonellosis

Quite often, abdominal pain and loose stools are symptoms of salmonellosis, which occurs in humans and animals. Salmonella is a very hardy microorganism. It remains active for a long time and tolerates even unfavorable conditions: so at 70 ° C this bacterium dies only after 7-10 minutes! In a piece of meat 12 cm thick, Salmonella does not die even after boiling, and in the smoked or salted salt, 2.5 months remain active. In butter, it can well feel 4 months, and in milk - until the time when it will turn sour.

On the first day after infection, the patient has abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever, nausea and vomiting. And the greatest danger in this disease is a toxic shock, which can cause cerebral edema, kidney or heart failure.

Treatment of salmonellosis

Based on the danger posed by salmonellosis, abdominal resuscitation and diarrhea caused by this disease are treated only in conditions of an infectious hospital.

• After clarification of the diagnosis, the patient is cleared of the organism with the maximum possible dose of sorbents (Smecta, Polysorb, etc.), which helps the products of the life of bacteria to go out with faeces, and not to be absorbed into the blood.
• Conduct rehydration procedures, that is, restore the necessary volume of fluid in the body. To do this, use intravenous salt solutions and glucose. Depending on what is the electrolyte composition of the patient's blood, droppers are prescribed with solutions of Ringer, Trisol, Acesol, etc. And, additionally, the patient is drunk with "Regidron" or "Human Electrolyte" preparations.
• Antibiotic therapy is reduced to taking one or two kinds of antibiotics ("Ceftriaxone", "Norfloxacin", "Ciprofloxacin", etc.). They are usually administered in the first 5 days of the disease intravenously or intramuscularly, and subsequently, with a decrease in the level of intoxication and improvement in overall well-being, in the form of tablets.

Dysentery

The described symptoms are not less often manifested with another intestinal infection, transmitted from person to person, dysentery. It can be infected at any time of the year, but in summer, as a rule, peak incidence is observed.

Dysentery bacillus, after falling into the stomach, dies in large amounts, secreting endotoxin. It is absorbed into the intestines and carried by blood through the body, poisoning it. And the surviving part of the bacteria is located in the large intestine, which causes the development of the inflammatory process until the appearance of ulcers.

With dysentery patients complain of cramping pains and abdominal pains and diarrhea, which are accompanied by weakness, chills and fever. Very frequent bowel movements (up to 20 times a day) after a while become lean, and mucus and blood appear in them, there are tenesmus (painful false urges to empty).

Treatment of dysentery

Diarrhea and abdominal pain caused by dysentery can be treated in the infectious diseases hospital and at home, depending on the severity of the disease. The patient is prescribed adsorbents ("Polyphepan", "Smecta"), drugs that improve the intestinal microflora ("Linex", "Bifidobacterin", "Lactobacterin", etc.), as well as antibiotics.

When treating a patient, a sparing diet is necessary and strict quarantine is observed.

What is intestinal flu

But diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal resuspension may also be symptoms of a viral infection (most often rotaviruses or enteroviruses). In such cases, they talk about intestinal flu.

Usually, the disease manifests itself sharply and suddenly, and pain symptoms in the muscles, weakness, rapidity of the heart, runny nose, sore throat, lacrimation, photophobia, pain in the heart are added to these symptoms, which, as you know, can make diagnosis more difficult.

Infection with viruses, like bacteria, occurs when violations of hygiene rules (dirty hands, poorly washed fruits and vegetables, etc.). And the patient with this type of infection is very contagious, since rotaviruses, for example, are able to withstand a fairly low temperature and can stay in unfavorable conditions for a long time.

How to treat intestinal flu

There is no special treatment for intestinal flu . And if a patient has abdominal pain and diarrhea, the treatment is reduced to taking symptomatic medications:

• To stop the absorption of toxic substances and accelerate the removal of pathogens, adsorbents are assigned (Smekta, Enterosgel, activated carbon, etc.);
• To reduce the temperature, which, with intestinal flu can last up to 4 days, requires antipyretic drugs (Paracetamol, Ibuprofen);
• And to slow the peristalsis of the intestine and move along the digestive tract of the contents, astringents (oak bark, St. John's wort, camomile flowers, etc.) are used;
• To restore the beneficial microflora in the stomach of the patient requires lactose-containing substances ("Linex", "Bifikol").

In the diet of the patient include jelly, chicken broth, rice porridge, which are offered in small portions. And in the presence of frequent loose stools and vomiting, the lack of fluid and salts is restored by frequent drinking and taking the drug "Regidron".

It should be noted that rotaviruses are susceptible to an increase in body temperature, and at 38 ° C they begin to die, so it is not recommended to knock down it in intestinal flu below this level.