Sicky bum
I'm on the look out for some diarrhea remedies to save my man, anyone??Can you believe that the nurse refused our request for a doctor appointment after we had told her my man's symptoms - having diarrhea since Saturday (3 days in a row, man!!), bit vomiting on Saturday night, bit high temperature on Sunday, waking up in the dead of night to pass watery stools?? I checked out some sites about diarrhea and they all mention something like "If you have diarrhea for more than 48 hours and have temperature, consult your doctor." But how if your doctor doesn't give a ratass??!! %$&#&@!!
I bet it's time for some home remedies. The most basic remedy is to drink loads and loads of water/tea/soup in order to replace everything that is put out to avoid dehydration. I have found some remedies for diarrhea on the Internet. Buttermilk - to be taken with a pinch of salt four times a day - is one of the most effective and popular home remedies for controlling diarrhea, as the acid in the buttermilk could fight germs and bacteria. But the combination of diarrhea and butter"milk" makes my flesh creep, because butter milk reminds me of diarrhea's worst enemy - dairy products. I know, I know, buttermilk is different because the fat has been removed yada yada.
Okay, so buttermilk is out. What else?? Carrot soup. It feeds water to avoid dehydration and supplies sodium and calcium and some more chemicals. Carrot soup can coat the intestine to stop the tummy ache and to stop vomiting. Cook half a kilo of carrots in 150ml of water until they become soft, strain the pulp, add extra boiled water to make a litre, add a pinch of salt, and give in small amounts of the soup to the patient every half an hour. I think my mom used this remedy once when I was in elementary school, and I remember that it was a complete failure because when I was suffering from profuse diarrhea my siblings were poking fun at my "orange poo poo". But since my man is never that crazy about carrot anyway, this carrot soup would be used when other remedies are proved not effective.
An oriental home remedy - Watery Congee - was proved very effective, as it saved me from spending days on the pot when I was small. Fill a big pot with 4L of water, bring it to a boil, add half a cup of white rice, put the lid on, reduce the heat to low and simmer for an hour, remove the lid, continue to boil over high heat until the rice is gone, and feed the patient a small bowl of congee every hour. As this remedy was my life saver when I was little (I had very weak stomach), I am giving this one a go to see if it works the same on my man. The congee has been boiling for almost 2 hours now, and I have been checking on it every 15 minutes (every 5 minutes when boiling over high heat). Believe me, you have to be very attentive and "devoted" to the pot or the congee will spill all over your stove. Let's hope my effort will not go to waste, knock on wood!!
posted by Miss Bad Penny at
11:17
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BRAT diet! Bananas Rice Applesauce (dry) toast
works wonders!
And I hear you on this shitty country's medical system. You can't even go to the ER unless you're like.. unconscious or hit by a bus it seems. I was bleeding A LOT when I was pregnant and not allowed to go to the hospital. I had to go to a dr who told me to 'get over it' and go home. We rolled a few heads and got PERMISSION to go to the hospital to see a gyn... who FYI also told me to 'get over it'.
If I ever get like cancer... I'm moving back home to the USofA!
I also have a friend here who got sick in 2000. She was finally recovered from a SMALL operation about 4 years later. Why doesn't that surprise me?
If you ever get pregnant here hun, run as fast as you can! I for one will never have a baby here again. If we have some sort of "surprise" I will push to move home before it's born or insist on having it in Belgium where they treat pregnant mothers like royalty.
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Laura K., at
9:34 AM, March 29, 2006
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