Causes of diarrhea

Diarrhea can be a symptom of various gastrointestinal diseases. If you have a bacterial infection, for example, they occur as a safety reaction to flush the intruders out of your system. It could also be a food poisoning, abdominal influenza or many other illnesses. You should visit your doctor if your diarrhea is severe or you even have blood in your stool. In mild cases, you find efficient treatments at your local pharmacy..

What if diarrhea comes back at you?

This happens for example when you have an irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or a food ingredient intolerance, such as the one against lactose, also known as milk sugar. In that event common foods trigger the symptoms. Similar to an allergy, certain ingredients are not stomached well, and their consumption triggers the stomach’s flush reaction.

Certainly you want to act on reoccurring diarrhea

Especially when you are out of the house diarrhea is very annoying as you are unable to reach a toilet at any given moment. The same holds at work, for example when you have to give a presentation speech or attend a meeting. In addition, there is the general feeling of discomfort as well as psychological aspects such as a feeling of shame. By fighting the cause of your diarrhea, you can thus increase your quality of life.

Why do you have ongoing diarrhea if you have a food related intolerance?

When certain sugars that your stomach has a trouble with handling, like fructose, if you have a fructose intolerance, lactose if you are faced with a lactose intolerance, and sorbitol in case of a sorbitol intolerance, arrive at your large intestine, water pours into it like children in the schoolyard when a sweets store opens on it. The water loves these sugars, which only arrive there because the stomach failed to catch them before to profit from the energy they provide. The result, of course, is you having to visit the toilet with diarrhea. How is that different from IBS? IBS means that the trigger is uncertain. In the United States, more than 20 % of the population are affected by these diseases though it often remains untapped as it is not what you love telling your peers about.

How you can handle lasting diarrhea

As fructose, lactose and sorbitol are contained in many foods, what you need to lower your symptoms are easy to use food tables. Especially fructose and sorbitol are also being used to sweeten various products such as chewing gum. Lactose is known to more people; still few are aware how many milk products they are still able to stomach or how many lactase capsules they need. »The IBS Navigator« by Laxiba is a great help to them.

Do you have ongoing diarrhea and are on the search for its cause or would you like to treat a food related intolerance? The before mentioned book will help you improve your quality of life. It guides you from the diagnosis at a specialist to coping with it each day. For more than 1 200 products you find out how much you can cook and eat of it to be on the safe side. You can look forward to a humorous and practically proven book that includes a lot of wisdom from both science and patients.