What to do if gastroenteritis and diarrhea do not stop? Antibacterial treatment is crucial

Gastroenteritis is often caused by bacterial infection. The most important thing to treat diarrhea caused by gastroenteritis is antibacterial treatment, but don’t use antibiotics blindly. During gastroenteritis, you should also take good care of your diet and eat light and easy-to-digest food.

1. Antimicrobial treatment: The therapeutic effect of antibiotics on this disease is controversial. For infectious diarrhea, targeted antibiotics can be appropriately selected, such as berberine 0.3g orally, 3 times a day or gentamicin 80,000U orally, 3 times a day. However, the abuse of antibiotics should be prevented.

2. Daily health care

1. The early stage of enteritis is the stage of acute intestinal congestion, edema, inflammation and exudation. At this time, intestinal peristalsis is active or in a spasm state, and its digestion and absorption function is relatively weak. Therefore, within 8 to 12 hours after onset, patients can eat liquid food, such as rice porridge, lotus root powder, egg batter, thin noodles, stewed thin noodles, etc. If the diarrhea is severe or sweating is excessive, the patient should be given more soup, such as rice juice, vegetable soup, fruit juice, light salt water, etc., to replenish the deficiency of water, vitamins and electrolytes in the body.

2. During the recovery period of enteritis, patients can be given some easily digestible and nutritious liquid or semi-liquid food, such as rice porridge, thin noodles, steamed egg custard, salty biscuits, etc. It is advisable to eat small meals frequently, 4 to 5 times a day. It should be noted that it is not advisable to drink milk or eat a lot of sugar at this time, because these foods are easily fermented and produce a large amount of gas after entering the intestines, causing abdominal distension and abdominal pain, increasing the patient's pain. In addition, milk contains a lot of fat, which can lubricate the intestines and enhance intestinal peristalsis, which can increase the burden on the intestines and is not good for the condition.

3. During the recovery period of enteritis, due to changes in the gastrointestinal tract, especially the intestinal pathophysiology, the intestines are very sensitive to food. Therefore, special attention should be paid to diet control. It is advisable to eat light, soft, and warm food. Avoid eating fatty meat, fried, raw, cold, and hard foods too early, as well as high-fiber foods such as celery, leeks, and garlic shoots. About 2 to 3 days after the recovery period, you can eat your normal diet.