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Diarrhea in conjunction with constipation, not a disease, is a symptom of a disorder whose severity depends on the cause that originated it.

Diarrhea is characterized by the frequent evacuation of watery stools, without forming, causing a excasa absorption of nutrients, electrolytes and fluids. You can go or not accompanied by pain, weakness, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, fever or loss of appetite.

It may be acute or chronic. The first of sudden onset, usually lasts a day or two. The second usually takes longer, often a symptom of more serious disease. The disorder may stem from the diet, infections, medications, chronic diseases, emotional stress, etc. ….

General Care:
- Replace fluids urgently eliminated in the feces, based on wines, soft drinks, tea, etc … Gradually incorporate easily digested meals, small, frequent up to return to normal diet.
- If diarrhea is moderate, water and salts lost can be replaced, alternating sips throughout the day of the following beverages:
- 1 glass of orange or apple with half a teaspoon of honey and a pinch of salt and one cup of boiled water and a quarter teaspoon of baking soda.

To prevent it:
- Wash hands thoroughly before cooking or eating food.
- Pour a few drops of bleach on the plants we eat raw (tomatoes, lettuce)
- Ensure that the water we drink is clean, not drinking if in doubt.
- Wash the egg shells before opening.
- If we travel and water is not drinkable, not brush our teeth with ellla.
- Wash hands thoroughly after going.
- Boil or sterilize bottles, pacifiers, children under 1 year.

A recent American study analyzed the ‘diseases of travelers’ most frequently related to younger and found that the health problems suffered by children are often different from those affecting adults after international protests. The results of this work published out in the latest edition of the journal Pediatrics.

As noted study leader Dr. Stefan Hagmann, Bronx New York Hospital-Lebanon (United States), one of the main issues is that children tend to travel less prepared than their elders. It is worth mentioning that this work was based on nearly 1,600 children from 19 countries who had traveled to 218 different destinations.

Other outstanding features is that small family often require medical care to return before the adults, and are usually admitted because of their condition or undergoing treatment for longer.

The map of traveler’s diseases in children is then as follows: 28 percent of children’s issues the return match with diarrhea, 25 percent, to skin problems, 23 percent to fevers, and a 11 percent to respiratory disorders, ie, that these four disorders for 86 percent of the total.

By region, skin rashes and other skin conditions occur more in cases of children returning from holidays in Latin America, such gastrointestinal problems have been observed mostly after mobilizations to the Middle East and North Africa, while regions Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa tend to cause more fevers in children who visit them.

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Staphylococcal

Episode of acute vomiting, stomach cramps and diarrhea caused by eating food contaminated with staphylococcal enterotoxin.It occurs in outbreaks, when people with skin infections (fornculos, etc..) food handlers and contaminated, and after they are exposed to room temperature.

Typical mediums include foods such as custards, cream pies, milk, processed meat and fish.

The incubation period (without symptoms) is 2 to 8 hours after ingestion of food containing enterotoxin. The disorder is brief, with recovery in 3-6 hours. In very young children, elderly or chronically ill may be more severe disorders of fluid and salt balance. The intravenous fluid replacement produces dramatic improvement.

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The management of diarrhea in the household consists of the following three rules (the ABC of diarrhea):
1. DC supply,
2. Drink plenty,
3. Consultations.

CONTINUOUS POWER

Continuous feeding is not to interrupt the normal diet, eat more often to compensate for loss of appetite, add one or two teaspoons of vegetable oil to food to provide energy, not introducing new foods as long as diarrhea, only to avoid very concentrated or highly spiced and sweetened. Keeping food during diarrhea, accelerates the normalization of bowel function, including digestion and absorption of food. It also favors the hydration of the patient to provide water carriers for intestinal absorption and offset the loss by diarrhea.

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