2 What can I eat?

Diarrhea diet means eating foods high in pectin. Pectin is a water-soluble fiber that actively fights against intestinal disorders. This substance is found in large quantities in yogurt, apples and bananas. These products must necessarily be present on the table in a diarrhea patient.

To avoid fatigue and fatigue accompanying frequent loose stools, experts recommend not forgetting to consume enough protein. Protein can be obtained from boiled eggs, chicken and turkey.

Do not give up foods that contain a lot of potassium. The whole point is that with diarrhea the body loses a large amount of this substance, which negatively affects its condition. To replenish the lost amount of potassium, you should eat potatoes in a uniform, bananas and drink fruit juices. Doctors advise eating 2 bananas every 4 hours.

Diets with diarrhea involve the use of a significant amount of salt. The thing is that the salt will help to keep water in the body and avoid dehydration. When frequent stools are recommended, there are salty soups and crackers.

You can have the following products:

1. Meat dishes.

Only low-fat meat without tendons and films should be selected. You can cook yourself boiled meat and cutlets. It is even better to prepare meat dishes for a couple.

1. Fish.

Nutrition for diarrhea includes low-fat fish dishes. It is necessary to give preference to pollock and cod. Very useful steamed cutlets and meatballs from fish fillets.

1. Pasta.

Macaroni lovers can afford to eat a little boiled vermicelli. It is not necessary to abuse this dish. In a small amount, it is harmless, but if you eat pasta too often, then it is unlikely to avoid the complication of a painful condition.

1. Cereals.

With diarrhea, you can eat almost all cereals. The only exception is the pearl barley. Cereals can be boiled on water with a small amount of milk. In the finished dish, you should add a little butter. The most useful croup for diarrhea is white rice. This product has an excellent fixing action. Every 2 hours it is recommended to eat half the cup of boiled rice.

1. Eggs.

Dietary nutrition for diarrhea implies the consumption of soft-boiled eggs or omelets, but not more than 1 egg. With a very good tolerance of this product per day, you can eat 2 eggs.

1. Dairy products.

With diarrhea, you can prepare cereals with the addition of milk and butter. If we talk about sour-milk products, then they can be eaten, practically, in unlimited quantities. The thing is that these products contribute to the normalization of digestion. Also, dairy products prevent flatulence and fermentation. Experts advise daily to add a little bit of cheese and fresh cottage cheese to your diet. These products are an excellent source of calcium and protein.

1. Vegetables.

When a liquid stool appears, doctors advise eating boiled vegetables( except for tomatoes).They can be baked( thus there should not be a ruddy crust).It is even better to eat vegetables cooked in the form of mashed potatoes. Do not abuse garlic and onions. It is very useful carrots, which contains a lot of vitamin A, which improves the condition of the intestinal mucosa. Carrots have and adsorbing effect.

1. Fruits and berries.

Very useful for both adults and children. From them you can prepare useful compotes, jam, jelly and mousses. With good tolerance, you can let yourself eat 150 g of raspberries or strawberries a day.

1. Bread products. You can eat drying, white bread and dry biscuits.

Diet after receiving the first positive results should last for several more days.

1 Basic principles of nutrition

1. Diarrhea diet is aimed at the maximum reduction of one-stage load on the intestines. To do this, all food consumed should be served to the table in small portions. There is a need every 3 hours.
2. To improve the state of health, all chemical and mechanical stimuli of the intestine must be excluded.
3. It is necessary to abandon the products that can provoke the processes of fermentation in the intestine.
4. You can not eat foods with choleretic effect.
5. Diets with diarrhea should be energetically complete. The patient should receive with food proteins, fats and carbohydrates. However, we must ensure that the amount of carbohydrates and fats comes into the body in the minimum amount. The amount of protein with frequent stools should not be reduced.
6. To prevent dehydration, drink as much liquid as possible.
7. When there is diarrhea, experts advise eating semi-liquid, wiped food in a boiled form or cooked on steam. Spices in the dish do not need to add.
8. Some raw vegetables and fruits can aggravate diarrhea. That's why you should select such products with extreme caution.
9. After diarrhea, it is important not to eat foods for a while, which can provoke a new attack of loose stool.

3 What can not be?

People with diarrhea can not eat fatty and fried foods.

All heavy products are banned. Such food not only does not help to cope with the liquid stool, but will also aggravate the course of the disease.

It is necessary to refuse dishes that can cause gas formation in the intestines( legumes, cabbage).Such foods irritate the digestive tract. For the period of treatment it is necessary to refrain from smoking and alcoholic beverages.

Foods that can harm the intestines with diarrhea:

1. Meat dishes. Fatty varieties of meat are banned. Are harmful byproducts - brains, kidneys, liver. At the time of treatment, you must completely abandon the smoked meat.

1. Fish. You can not eat canned food, marinated, smoked and fatty fish.

1. Dairy products. Drinking with diarrhea eliminates the consumption of large amounts of whole milk and fatty cream.

1. Vegetables. With a liquid stool, canned vegetables, mustard, horseradish, cabbage, turnips, beets, mushrooms and rutabag are harmful.

1. Fruits and Vegetables. When diarrhea experts advise to exclude from their diet raw sour fruits and berries. It's about currants, cranberries, gooseberries and sour apples.

1. Bread products. We must give up black bread, pastry and cream cakes.

4 Drinks for diarrhea

Diarrhea can cause dehydration. That's why during the disease you need to drink at least 2-3 liters of water a day. Ideally, every 30 minutes you need to drink 300 ml of liquid.

Very useful is a weak tea, which has a fixing effect. This effect is provided by tannins contained in large quantities in tea. You can drink cocoa and coffee on the water, fruit and berry compotes, juices. The most useful for diarrhea is apple juice. But citrus, tomato and pineapple juices cause additional irritation of the intestine. Diet with diarrhea in an adult does not exclude the use of not more than 50 ml of red wine per day.

Do not drink too cold or fizzy drinks. They are harmful to the damaged intestine and can provoke the formation of a large number of gases. Doctors advise for a while to give up kvass, lemonade and beer.

Diet for diarrhea in an adult and a child implies the use of a self-prepared useful drink, which allows to restore the salt balance in the body. Such a drink is prepared quite easily. In 200 ml of clean, slightly warm water, you must dissolve half a teaspoon of salt, 2 tablespoons of honey and a quarter of a spoonful of soda. During the day, you should drink at least 1.5 liters of this liquid.

In case of severe diarrhea, experts advise to give up eating and drink only 2 liters of sweet tea on the first day.

5 Diarrhea diarrhea in children

All food consumed by a child with diarrhea should be agreed with a physician. If the baby is on breastfeeding, during this period it is impossible to transfer it to the mixture. This will only exacerbate the situation. All the necessary substances to restore the flora of the baby's intestines are contained in breast milk. With frequent liquid stools, the baby needs to offer breasts more often than on normal days.

If a baby eats a mixture, then parents should give their preference to nutrition enriched with bifidobacteria. Also, during the treatment the child should be given a mixture that has a fixing effect.

If the kid is over the age of 1,5 years, then all the food should be served to the table in the garbled form. Very mucous soups and products containing tannin are very useful for the baby. This substance is found in large quantities in black tea and blueberry juice. From drinks to the child it is still possible to give mineral water without gases.

6 Traditional medicine

With diarrhea, diet means taking traditional medicine that can help improve the condition of the patient and save him from unpleasant symptoms in a short time.

1. If the cause of the emergence of a liquid stool are bacteria, then doctors advise every 2 hours to drink half the small spoon of garlic juice. Positive results begin to appear on the first day of treatment.

1. No less popular is the juice of aloe. It should be taken orally 3 times a day for 2 tsp.before meals.

1. In adults and elderly people, diarrhea can be treated with juice from the grass of a shepherd's bag.40 drops of juice should be diluted with 50 g of vodka, divide the resulting liquid into 2 equal parts and drink during the day.

1. 15 g bird cherries should be poured 200 ml of water, simmer for 5 minutes, remove from heat and infuse for 30 minutes. The resulting consistency should be divided into 2 parts and a drink.

Diarrhea should be taken seriously. At the very first signs, you should immediately seek help from a doctor to find out the cause of this unpleasant phenomenon. Taking home remedies for diarrhea should also be agreed with a specialist. It is especially dangerous to independently treat liquid stools in children and the elderly. The consequences can be unpredictable.