Diarrhea

DIARRHEA

Diarrhea is increased frequency of stool or liquidity of feces.

Types

Acute diarrhea: Discussed as under acute gastroenteritis.

Chronic diarrhea: It is not a disease but a symptom of many diseases and disorders.

Acute diarrhea

• Infective Gastroenteritis: Shigella,

salmonella, campylobacter,

invasive E. coli. Symptom cluster: fever, myalgia, chills, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cramping abdominal pain.

• Lactose intolerance.

• Antibiotic associated (Loss of normal flora).

• Inflammatory bowel.

• Sphincter dysfunction

• Diabetes mellitus.

• Previous rectal or perirectal surgery.

• Errant episiotomy from a traumatic child birth.

Chronic diarrhea

• Dietary habits (coffee).

• Parasitic infections: giardiasis, amoebiasis.

• Inflammatory bowel disease.

Diarrhea closely following intake of food

Etiology

• Sensitive gastrocolic reflex.

• After gastric operation.

• Inflammation of colon.

Homeopathic medicines

Ars: Small, offensive, dark, with much prostration. Worse at night, and after eating and drinking; from chilling stomach, alcoholic abuse, spoiled meat. Dysentery dark, bloody, very offensive.

Croton tig: Copious watery stools, with much urging; always forcibly shot out, with gurgling in intestines; worse, drinking the least quantity, or even while eating. Constant urging to stool, followed by sudden evacuation.

Swashing sensation in intestines

Diarrhea with pain

Aloe: Pain around navel, worse pressure. Fullness in region of liver, pain under right ribs. Abdomen feels full, heavy, hot, bloated. Pulsating pain around navel. Weak feeling, as if diarrhoa would come on. Great accumulation of flatus, pressing downwards, causing distress in lower bowels. Sensation of plug between symphysis pubis and os coccygis, with urging to stool. Colic before and during stool. Burning, copious flatus.

Sense of insecurity in rectum, when passing flatus. Uncertain whether gas or stool will come. Stool passes without effort, almost unnoticed. Lumpy, watery stool. Jelly-like stools, with soreness in rectum after stool. A lot of mucus, with pain in rectum after stool.

Bell: Spasmodic pain in epigastrium. Constriction; pain runs to spine.

Nausea and vomiting. Great thirst for cold water. Spasms of stomach.

Empty retching. Abhorrence of liquids. Spasmodic hiccough. Dread of drinking. Uncontrollable vomiting. Abdomen distended, hot. Transverse colon protrudes like a pad. Tender, swollen. Pain as if clutched by a hand; worse, jar, pressure. Cutting pain across; stitches in left side of abdomen, when coughing, sneezing, or touching Stools thin, green, dysenteric; in lumps like chalk. Shuddering during stool. Stinging pain in rectum 

Cham: Distended. Griping in region of navel, and pain in small of back.

Flatulent colic, after anger, with red cheeks and hot perspiration. Hepatic colic

Painless diarrhea

Apis: Stools invels raw. Diar every motion; anus seems open. Bloody, painless. Anus feetsour. Diarrhea watery, yellow; cholera infantum typy.

Cannot urinate without a stool. Dark, fetid, worse after eating.

Gels: Diarrhoea from emotional excitement, fright, bad news (Phos ae).

Stool painless or involuntary. Cream-colored (Cale), tea-green. Partial paralysis of rectum and sphincter.

Phos: Very fetid stools and flatus. Long, narrow, hard, like a dog's. Difficult to expel. Desire for stool on lying on left side. Painless, copious debilitating diarhoea. Green mucus with grains like sago. Involuntary; seems as if anus remained open. Great weakness after stool. Discharge of blood from rectum, during stool. White, hard stools. Bleeding haemorrhoids.

Phos ac: Diarrhoa, white, watery, involuntary, painless, with much flatus; not specially exhausting. Diarrhoea in weakly, delicate rachitic children.

By Khushboo