Diarrhea is uncomfortable at best, and dangerous at worst. It can be extremely unpleasant to cope with, but the one good thing about it, is that diet and diarrhea are inextricably related.

Acute and chronic diarrhea

Diarrhea can be classified as acute, persistent or chronic; infectious or non-infectious, depending on the duration and symptoms. Acute diarrhea is an episode of diarrhea that lasts for one to two days. Chronic diarrhea lasts for at least four weeks while persistent diarrhea lasts longer than two weeks but less than four weeks, and is typically non-infectious

What can you eat when you have diarrhea

Your food intake is crucial in helping you heal faster, especially when you are battling the loosies. The BRAT diet comes highly recommended to many. BRAT is an acronym that stands for ‘Bananas (unripe), Rice, Apples, Toast’. As these foods are a part of a bland diet, they will not upset the digestive tract while helping firm up the stool.

Other foods that can be consumed are:

• Boiled peeled potatoes – It can help compensate for potassium depletion and ease your stomach.
• Rice porridge or congee – It is low in fiber and won’t upset your stomach.
• Broths – They hydrate your digestive system and replenish lost electrolytes.

Eating several mini meals throughout the day can help protect the digestive system from being overburdened. Focus on a liquid diet as it offers hydration, which is important for replacing lost fluids. Probiotic supplementation has also been shown to reduce the severity and duration of symptoms and should be encouraged in patients with multiple origin diarrhea.

Role of probiotics

There are medications, especially antibiotics, that are taken to treat diarrhea. Antibiotics kill not only the bad bacteria, but also the good ones. The root-cause of diarrhea is a dysbiotic gut which should be treated to cure the disease. This can be done with the help of probiotics. A corrected gut will eventually cure the diarrhea.

Probiotics replenishes the gut with good bacteria which converts the dysbiotic gut to eubiotic gut. Meals containing probiotics may also lessen the frequency of an episode of diarrhea as growing evidence suggests that probiotics may serve as functional food in the treatment of diarrhea.

OneBC is a travel-friendly, odorless, and tasteless probiotic remedy for multiple-origin diarrhea. It comes in a 5ml vial with 2 billion spores of good bacteria in an oral suspension. It floods the gut with those good bacteria, replaces bad bacteria and arrests diarrhea.

OneBC contains an antibiotic-resistant probiotic strain known as Bacillus clausii . It is one of the most efficient probiotic strains for treating multiple-origin diarrhea.

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Note: This blog is not meant to dispense medical advice. It is meant only to inform. Please consult a doctor if you have severe diarrhea that lasts longer than three days, or any aggravated symptoms.