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Check nowDiarrhoea can be inconvenient, but it can also cause dehydration and ill-health. Our expert, Ali Cullen, discusses ways to treat it including a range of home, natural and conventional methods.
Diarrhoea is the passage of loose or watery stools, usually associated with the need to go to the toilet more than four times in a 24 hour period.
If diarrhoea is the result of infection by bacteria or a virus, (generally a short-lived problem and shouldn’t last any more than two weeks), this is known as acute diarrhoea.
If you are suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), or another long-term bowel condition, it is likely that your symptoms will persist. Despite this, it is common for the severity of symptoms to fluctuate and flare-ups of symptoms are common. This is known as chronic diarrhoea.
Depending on the type of diarrhoea and the primary cause, there are different approaches you can take to manage your symptoms.
There are a number of ways you can treat diarrhoea from home, including:
There are some natural remedies which you may want to try to get diarrhoea under control:
If self-help measures or natural remedies aren’t helping to control the diarrhoea, anti-diarrhoeal medication from your pharmacist or doctor is an option. This acts to slow down the contractions of the gut, allowing more water to be reabsorbed and stools to firm up.
Antibiotics or anti-viral medication can be taken if the cause of diarrhoea is an infection.
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