DIARRHEA PREVENTION 1.

Drink more water

2. Give oral dehydration salts
Hand 3. Avoid caffeine, dairy products,
and greasy, high fibre, or
washing sugary foods
Use clean 4. Placing a hot water bottle or
water. wheat pack on your stomach,
Give breast or taking paracetamol (e.g.
Panadol), may provide some
feeding for relief from abdominal cramps
your infant . 5. Apply zinc and castor oil
Vaccination from ointment or a barrier cream to
affected areas if you, or your
rotavirus.
child, develops a rash (like
Always put foods that nappy rash) from the diarrhea
could spoil in the fridge 6. Anti-diarrhoeal medications
Ensure that meat is that slow diarrhoea (e.g.
Imodium) should be avoided
cooked thoroughly
as these drugs prevent your
Avoid eating raw meats, body from getting rid of the
fish, and shellfish unless bacteria or virus that may
you are sure that they have caused the diarrhoea

have been freshly

prepared and are from a diArrhea
reliable source UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
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vegetables

TREATMENT OF DIARRHEA:
 with loss of the normal Watery stools
stretchiness of the An urgent feeling that you
skin and irritable
need to have a bowel
behaviour.
movement
Nausea and throwing up
More serious symptoms
CAUSES OF DIARRHEA
include:
Alcohol Blood or mucus in your
abuse stool

Weight loss
Allergies
Fever
to
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Infection by
bacteria (the cause of most
types of food poisoning) or
other organisms
Diseases of the intestines
Eating foods that upset the
WHAT IS DIARRHEA .? digestive system
Some cancers
Diarrhea is the condition of having
at least three loose or liquid bowel SYMPTOMS OF DIARRHEA
movements each day. It often lasts
Bloating in your belly
for a few days and can result
Cramps TYPES OF STOOL
in dehydration due to fluid loss.
Thin or loose stools
Signs of dehydration often begin
TYPES OF DIARRHEA illness lasts from two to four weeks.
If the condition lasts longer than
Acute diarrhea is typically caused
four weeks, it is considered chronic
by bacteria, viruses or parasites.
diarrhea.
Persistent diarrhea is when the