• Calcium (Calcium citrate)
• Calcium Gluconate)
• Diarrhea

If a parasitic infection caused your diarrhea, prescription antibiotics may ease your symptoms. Antibiotics sometimes, but not always, help ease symptoms of bacterial diarrhea. However, antibiotics won't help viral diarrhea, which is the most common kind of infectious diarrhea.

Diarrhea caused by viral infections typically clears on its own without antibiotics. Over-the-counter medications such as Imodium, Pepto-Bismol and Kaopectate may slow diarrhea, but they won't speed your recovery.

Take these measures to prevent dehydration and reduce symptoms while you recover:

• Drink at least 8 to 10 glasses (2 to 2 1/2 quarts) of clear liquids, including water, clear sodas and broths, gelatin and juices every day.
• Add semisolid and low-fiber foods gradually as your bowel movements return to normal. Try soda crackers, toast, eggs, rice or chicken.
• Avoid dairy products, fatty foods or highly seasoned foods for a few days.
• Avoid caffeine and alcohol.  

Besides the above tips, you can also help your cause by simply eating right. Unless instructed otherwise, eat a low-fat diet with a focus on additive-free fruits, vegetables, grains, and small quantities of good-quality protein. Examples of a good-quality protein include nonfat dairy foods, eggs, legumes, soy, lean chicken, and fish. Do not eliminate one or more of these nutritional building blocks without consulting with a nutritionist to develop a personalized eating plan.

In general you will want to limit your intake, but there may be exceptions. If you have lost a lot of weight, just getting enough calories to prevent weight loss may be a goal, and hence additional fat and some sugar can be good sources of calories.

Drink as much as you can during the day. Dehydration can be a problem with certain drugs and when nausea or diarrhea occurs. Bring a water bottle with you when you leave the house. If you are losing weight or need to gain weight, choose higher-calorie liquids (in addition to water) such as fruit nectars, juices, or your own fruit popsicles made in ice cube trays.

• Diarrhea
• Lactose intolerance
• Nausea

You can also take the following tips to heart. These have helped many people who have diarrhea and can help you to:

• Drink plenty of room-temperature liquids to help prevent dehydration. These might include freshly juiced organic fruit drinks, Gatorade, ginger ale, peach or apricot nectar, water, or weak teas. Limit caffeinated beverages.
• Allow carbonated beverages to lose their fizz or stir them before you drink them.
• Consume more potassium-rich foods such as orange juice, tomato juice, bananas, and potatoes.
• Try the BRAT diet -- bananas, rice, applesauce, tea, and toast.
• Try frequent, small meals.
• Avoid greasy, spicy, or high-fiber foods.
• Try breads made from refined flour without seeds or nuts.
• Avoid raw vegetables and the skins, seeds, and stringy fibers of unpeeled fruits. Resume your consumption of higher fiber foods, fruits, and vegetables once the diarrhea subsides (check with your dietitian and doctor first).
• Have spicy or highly seasoned foods only as tolerated.
• Use dairy products with care due to possible lactose intolerance. Try rice milk, organic yogurt, or almond milk.

Instead of treating diarrhea by conventional methods, there are herbal remedies that have been found to work. These include:

Argentum nitricum: If a person has diarrhea when anticipating a stressful event (such as giving a speech or a public performance, taking a test, or attending a party) this remedy should help.

Arsenicum album: Diarrhea accompanied by anxiety, restlessness, and exhaustion would get help from this remedy.

Bryonia: This remedy is often helpful for diarrhea during flu (especially when the person feels grumpy and wants to lie still and be left alone).

Chamomilla: Hot, green, watery diarrhea with abdominal pain and gas suggests a need for this remedy.

• Abdominal pain
• Anxiety
• Diarrhea
• Lactose intolerance
• flu
• Gas and gas pains
• Nausea

Colocynthis: If the person has cutting and cramping pains in the abdomen preceding the diarrhea, this remedy can help.

Gelsemium: This remedy is often helpful if trembling and weakness accompany diarrhea, especially when nervousness, fear, or emotional upset is the cause.

Ipecacuanha: If a person has diarrhea accompanied by extreme or constant nausea, this remedy may bring relief.

Phosphorus: This remedy can be soothing if a person has a weak or empty feeling in the abdomen, followed by diarrhea.

Podophyllum: Profuse, gushing, watery diarrhea that is usually not accompanied by pain may get help from this remedy.

Pulsatilla: If diarrhea occurs after eating rich and fatty foods, this remedy can be helpful.

Sulphur: Urgent, hot diarrhea that occurs in the early morning, making the person rush to the bathroom, may find this remedy helpful.

Other Natural Remedies

Probiotics / Enzymes - 2 to 3 times daily.  Contains friendly bacteria.

Ginger - 500 mg in capsule or cup of ginger tea every two hours.  Reduces intestinal inflammation.

Oregano Oil - 4 drops in veggie capsule three times daily on full stomach. Antimicrobial effects.

Astragalus - 500 to 1,000 mg 2 to 3 times daily.  Improves digestion. Excellent for chronic diarrhea.  Do not take astragalus if you have a fever.

Oxygenator - 10 to 12 drops in 6 ounces of water 3-4 times daily. It is an anti-inflammatory, broad spectrum, bactericidal, fungicidal, virucidal agent.

Activated Charcoal - 2 tablets three times daily.  Binds toxins in the digestive tract.

Marshmallow - 500 mg in capsule form three times daily.  Soothing to the digestive tract.

Colostrum - 500 mg three times daily.  Helps to heal digestive tract.

Essential Oils - Use the following to help relieve abdominal cramps - chamomile, lavender, peppermint and lemon balm.  These will also ease stress.  Use in a carrier oil and rub on abdominal area.

Stress Reduction - Meditation techniques, biofeedback, yoga, listening to healing music.

These are all good tips to help you. But you need to continue this regimen everyday for it to have a full effect. Read on to see how you can put these and other tips into use so you can experience life without the affects of diarrhea.

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