What to do if you get diarrhea after drinking tap water

Nowadays, every household uses tap water, but many people in the north use water transferred from the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. When using water, they must use a filter before they can use it safely. However, due to different conditions in each family, they can only drink tap water. However, when drinking tap water, they cannot accept it at first and start to get stomach upset or even diarrhea. So how to solve this problem?

1. Acute diarrhea

(1) Bacterial infection: People may develop enteritis or bacillary dysentery after eating food contaminated by bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Shigella, or drinking beverages contaminated by bacteria, with symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, tenesmus, and fever of varying degrees.

(2) Viral infection: When a person is infected with a variety of viruses through food or other means, it is easy to cause viral diarrhea. For example, after being infected with rotavirus, Norwalk virus, Coxsackie virus, Echo virus and other viruses, symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, fever and general discomfort may occur.

(3) Food poisoning is an acute toxic disease caused by eating food contaminated by bacteria and their toxins, or eating uncooked lentils, etc. Spoiled food and contaminated water are the main sources of infection, while unclean hands, tableware and infected flies are the main routes of transmission. Patients may experience acute gastrointestinal symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and fever.

(4) Eating raw and cold foods and drinking ice beer frequently can lead to gastrointestinal disorders, accelerated intestinal motility, and diarrhea.

(5) Food retention and indigestion, irregular eating, overeating, eating indigestible food, or food retention in the stomach due to insufficient gastric motility, causing symptoms such as abdominal distension, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, acid reflux, heartburn, and belching (hiccups).

(6) Catching a cold In the hot summer, people like to stay in air-conditioned rooms or sleep with the air conditioner on. The abdomen can easily get cold, which speeds up intestinal peristalsis and causes diarrhea.

2. Chronic diarrhea

Chronic diarrhea lasts for more than 2 months and has more complex causes than acute diarrhea, so diagnosis and treatment are sometimes difficult.

(1) Intestinal infectious diseases: ① Chronic amoebic dysentery; ② Chronic bacterial diseases; ③ Intestinal tuberculosis; ④ Giardiasis, schistosomiasis; ⑤ Intestinal candidiasis.

(2) Non-infectious intestinal inflammation: ① Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis); ② Radiation enteritis; ③ Ischemic colitis; ④ Diverticulitis; ⑤ Uremic enteritis.

(3) Tumors: ① Colorectal cancer; ② Colon adenoma (polyp); ③ Malignant lymphoma of the small intestine; ④ Amine precursor uptake decarboxylation cell tumor, gastrinoma, carcinoid, intestinal vasoactive intestinal polypeptide tumor, etc.

(4) Small intestinal malabsorption ① Primary small intestinal malabsorption; ② Secondary small intestinal malabsorption.

If drinking tap water gives you diarrhea, it is best to install a water purifier at home. It is relatively affordable. If drinking tap water gives you diarrhea, you must try to use filtered water. In this way, you will no longer have diarrhea. We should pay more attention to such things happening in our daily lives. .