Homeopathic Tips for Preventing and Treating Diarrhea
A Healthy Stomach gives way to a Healthy Mind.” Prioritising your digestive health is key to leading a happy and healthy life.
People often experience an upset stomach due to eating at unhygienic places and having unhygienic food or water or a change in the usual diet. Homeopathy helps in these problems be it chronic or acute. Here are some of the tips to improve gut health
Prevention
- As they say - "Prevention is always better than cure". You need to take actions to maintain a good gut health.
- Eat healthy food , have a balanced diet
- Start by including a variety of fruits, vegetables, grains, proteins, fibre and healthy fats in your daily meals.
- Avoid eating stale food and street food, wash your hands before eating and maintain proper hygiene at your house & workplace . Limit alcohol and caffeine, manage stress and get enough sleep.
No Medicine
- If the diarrhea is of a milder form and not too severe, you can just take certain preventive measures and allow your stomach to relax and get back to normal on its own without any medications.
- You can avoid having heavy food, take a soft diet like curd rice, lots of fluids, fresh fruits juices, lemonades, coconut water for a day or two which will help the stomach to relax.
- You may also use probiotics which promotes healthy gut bacteria thereby improving digestion and preventing diarrhea.
Arsenic Album - Diarrhea After Stale Food or Spoiled Food
- When there is diarrhea accompanied by severe abdominal pain after eating spoiled food , vegetables , spoiled fruits, stale meat, stale fish , stale cheese or outside street food , at such times Arsenicum Album 200 helps to get the relief.
Podophyllum - For Painless Diarrhea or Summer Diarrhea
- Often in summers, people experience diarrhea but with no abdominal pain, even otherwise whenever there are episodes of painless diarrhea…Podophyllum 200 is of great help.
Pulsatilla - Diarrhea After Mixed Food
- When there are too many cuisines eaten at a time, typically in an Indian marriage, it often leads to indigestion and loose stools..at such times remedy Pulsatilla 200 comes to the rescue.
Antimonium Crudum - Diarrhea After Over-Eating
- If you overeat sometimes your gut doens't support you and you have diarrhoea. In such times, Antimonium Crudum 200 can bring about relief.
Prolonged Diarrhoea
- If the diarrhea remains for more than 4 days,you should consult a doctor to get it investigated and find a proper diagnosis. Homeopathic medicines can be of a great help to bring about cure in chronic diarrhea.
Cautionary Note – In all of the above cases if you are taking these medicines for 24hrs and you are not responding well then you should immediately consult your Family physician and get yourself investigated.
