Stomach flu symptoms - What we eat?

Gastroenteritis, also known as "stomach flu" is a condition that usually causes inflammation of the stomach and small intestine. Since it is viral, not bacterial, it can be treated with antibiotics.

Symptoms of stomach flu include nausea, watery diarrhea and vomiting. Overall, not a serious illness, and most people recover completely within a short time. Its duration is approximately 3-5 days.

Alleviation of stomach flu symptoms can be achieved by adhering to a diet. Who are they and what should be our behavior in the treatment of stomach flu?

Preventing dehydration:
Among the main objectives in the treatment of stomach flu is the restoration of fluid balance in the body. If vomiting is constant and prevents fluid retention, have to wait 2-4 hours before meals and drinks. Consuming small amounts of water and other fluids is essential to the state of the body in severe vomiting and diarrhea.


Which foods to target:
Usually suffering from stomach flu have no appetite. But after nausea and vomiting subside, can gradually powering a solid food that is easily absorbed by the body - crackers, biscuits, noodles, cheese.

If diarrhea is adequate consumption of toasted bread, rice, potatoes, apple juice or bananas.

Which foods to avoid:
There are certain foods that should be avoided in gastroenteritis because the products can irritate the stomach, while the body is trying to recover from the virus. These are spicy, sour and fibrous foods. Meat, dairy products, cereals and vegetables are not recommended.

Preventive measures against stomach viruses are regular hand washing, disinfecting and avoiding contact with infected.

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All about stomach flu - Gastroenteritis. Part - 3

In this last part of the article "All about stomach flu - Gastroenteritis" will describe:

6 Mastering
6.1 Rehydration
6.2 Diet
6.3 Antiemetics
6.4 Antibiotics
6.5 antidiarrhoeals
7 Epidemiology

Mastering of stomach flu:

Gastroenteritis of stomach flu usually occurs as an acute self-limited disease that does not require the use of drugs. The preferred treatment for mild to moderate cases of dehydration is oral rehydration therapy (AC). Metoclopramide and / or ondansetron, however, can help some children abutilskopolamin helps abdominal pain.

Rehydration:

The main treatment for stomach flu in both children and adults is rehydration. It is preferable to apply oral rehydration therapy, although you may need intravenous feeding, if there is a reduced level of consciousness, or if dehydration is severe. Products for oral replacement therapy containing complex carbohydrates (ie those that are made from wheat or rice) may be better than those made only from sugars. Drinks, especially high in simple sugars, such as soft drinks and fruit juices are not recommended for children under 5 years of age, as it may increase diarrhea. If no more specific and effective preparations for AC or existing chemicals are unacceptable taste, can be used plain water. Young children can use a nasogastric tube feed fluid if necessary.

Diet:

Recommended infant feeding continues as usual, and formula feeding children who are bottle-fed should continue immediately after rehydration with AC. It is usually not necessary to give formulas without lactose-reduced or lactose. Children should continue their usual diet during episodes of diarrhea, however, should avoid foods high in simple sugars. No longer recommended diet BRAT (bananas, rice, applesauce, toast and tea), as it contains adequate nutrients and is more useful than the normal diet. Some probiotics appear to be useful in reducing both the duration of the disorder and the frequency of bowel movements. They may also be useful in the prevention and treatment of the use of antibiotic diarrhea. Fermented milk products (such as yogurt) are such useful features. Zinc supplementation is effective in the treatment and prevention of disease among children in developing countries.

Antiemetics:

Antiemetic medications (drugs to relieve urinary urgency nausea and vomiting) can help vomiting in children. Ondasetron provides some comfort as it once implementation is associated with reduced need for intravenous fluids, fewer hospital admissions and reduce vomiting. Metoclopramide may also help. However it is possible to use ondasetron is associated with an increased percentage of cases returned to the hospital for children. The intravenous form of ondasetron can be applied orally, but only at the discretion and recommendation of a medical professional. Dimenhidrinatat reduces vomiting but does not provide significant clinical benefit.


Antibiotics:

In gastroenteritis usually do not use antibiotics, although sometimes recommended if stomach flu symptoms are particularly severe or if it is isolated or suspected bacterial cause. If you need to apply antibiotics, macrolides (such as azithromycin) is preferable to a fluoroquinolone, as the proportion of fluoroquinolone resistance is higher. Pseudo-membrane colitis, which is usually caused by the use of antibiotics is addressed through immediate withdrawal of antibiotics, and treatment with metronidazole or vancomycin. The following types of bacteria and protozoa are treatable Shigella Salmonella Tiffy and giardiya. In cases giardiya or entameba histolitika be treated with tinidazole and it is better than treatment with metronidazole. World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the use of antibiotics in young children who have both bloody diarrhea and fever.

Antidiarrhoeals:

Antidiarrheal drug (diarrhea medicine) is a theoretical risk of complications and although clinical experience indicates that it is unlikely that these drugs are not recommended for people with bloody diarrhea or diarrhea complicated by fever. Loperamide, an opioid analogue commonly used for the treatment of diarrhea. Loperamide is not recommended for children, as it can pass through more immature blood-brain barrier and cause toxicity. Bismuth subsalitsilat, insoluble complex of trivalent bismuth and salicylate, can be used in mild to moderate cases, but it is theoretically possible risk of toxicity salitsilatna.

Epidemiology:

It is estimated that cases of gastroenteritis annually worldwide are three to five billion, mostly affected are children and those in developing countries. According to data from 2008 gastroenteritis resulting in about 1.3 million deaths in children under five years of age, with most cases in the poorest countries in the world. More than 450,000 of those deaths in children under 5 years of age due to rotavirus.Holerata accounts for about three to five million cases of disease and leads to death in approximately 100,000 people annually. In developing countries, children under two years of age often develop an annual six or more infections that lead to clinically significant gastroenteritis. It is not as common in adults partly because of the development of acquired immunity.
In 1980 gastroenteritis from any cause has led to 4.6 million deaths in children, and most cases occur in developing countries. Percentages of mortality, however, significantly decreased (to approximately 1.5 million deaths per year) to 2000, largely due to the introduction and widespread use of oral rehydration therapy. In the U.S., infections causing gastroenteritis is the second most common infection after the common cold), leading to between 200 and 375 million cases of acute diarrhea in approximately ten million deaths annually, 150 to 300 of those deaths were in children under five.

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All about stomach flu - Gastroenteritis. Part 1

All about stomach flu - Gastroenteritis. Part 2 

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All about stomach flu - Gastroenteritis. Part 2

As promised, we continue with the theme "All of a stomach flu - Gastroenteritis." This article will describe:

3 Pathophysiology
4 Diagnosis
4.1 Dehydration
4.2 Differential diagnosis
5 Prevention
5.1 The environment
5.2 Vaccination

Stomach flu pathophysiology

Stomach flu symptoms was defined as of vomiting or diarrhea due to infection of the small intestine or colon. Changes in the small intestine are usually not inflammatory, and those in the colon are inflamed. Тхе number pathogens that are sufficient to be able to cause infection varies from one (for cryptosporidia) to 108 (zavibrio cholera).

Diagnosis

Stomach flu is diagnosed clinically based on signs and symptoms of the patient. It is usually not necessary to determine the exact cause because it would not change the way of dealing with the disease. However, to do fecal testing of patients with blood in the stools of those who may have been exposed to food poisoning and those who have recently traveled to developing countries. Diagnostic tests may also be made to explore. Since approximately 10% of infants and young children receive hypoglycemia in this population is recommended measuring serum glucose. If there are serious concerns about dehydration, you should also do research for electrolytes and renal function.

Dehydration

An important part of the diagnostic evaluation is to determine whether a patient has dehydration and dehydration is usually defined as mild (3-5%), moderate (6-9%) and severe (≥ 10%). In children, the most accurate determination symptoms of moderate to severe dehydration are prolonged capillary filling, decreased skin turgor, and abnormal breathing. Other findings that may help in the diagnosis (when used in combination) are sinking eyeball, decreased activity, lack of tearing, and dry mouth. The normal volume of urine and oral fluid intake are good signs. Laboratory studies have greater clinical use to assess the degree of dehydration.




Differential diagnosis

Other possible causes signs and stomach flu symptoms resembling those of gastroenteritis that should be excluded are appendicitis, volvulus, inflammatory bowel disease, urinary tract infections and diabetes. You should also take into consideration pancreatic insufficiency syndrome, short small intestine, Whipple disease, tseliachna disease and laxative abuse. The differential stomach flu diagnosis may be difficult if the patient has symptoms only vomiting or diarrhea (but not both).
The incidence of appendicitis can occur with vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea in a small amount to 33% of cases. This is in contrast to the large amounts of diarrhea, which are typical of gastroenteritis. Lung infections or urinary tract infections in children can also cause vomiting or diarrhea. Classic case of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is manifested with abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, but no diarrhea. One study found that 17% of children with DKA, the condition is diagnosed as gastroenteritis.

Stomach flu Prevention


Environment

Reserves of easily accessible fresh water and good sanitation practices are essential to reduce the incidence of clinically significant infection and stomach flu. Taking personal precautions (eg hand washing) demonstrated decreased the incidence of gastroenteritis in both developing and developed countries to 30%. Alcohol-based gels preparations can be helpful. Breastfeeding and improving general hygiene are important factors, especially in areas with poor sanitation. Breast milk helps to reduce both the incidence of developing infections and their duration. Avoiding the consumption of contaminated food and water are also effective methods.

Flu Vaccination

Since rotavirus flu vaccine is as effective and safe, in 2009 the World Health Organisation has recommended it be offered to all children around the world. We are approved to distribute two brands of rotavirus vaccines, and several more are in development. In Africa and Asia, these flu vaccines have reduced severe cases of the disease in infants and in those countries that have established national immunization programs and the weight percentages of cases of the disease have declined. This vaccine can prevent disease and not vaccinated children, as it reduces the number of infected, which can spread the disease. From 200 onwards, the implementation of a vaccination program for rotavirus in the United States has significantly decreased the incidence of diarrhea by up to 80%. The first dose of vaccine should be given to infants aged between 6 and 15 weeks. Oral cholera vaccine has shown 50-60% efficacy over two years.

Be sure to read All about stomach flu - Gastroenteritis. Part 1

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What is stomach flu?

Stomach flu or gastroenteritis is a gastrointestinal infection caused by viruses, bacteria or parasites. Gastroenteritis is a condition associated primarily with hygiene and sanitary conditions of living, eating and living.

Symptoms:

The most characteristic stomach flu symptom is gastrointestinal upset, preceded by abdominal pain. Besides this characteristic disease symptoms can be expressed even in the presence of:

- Temperature

- Lack of appetite

- Nausea

- Vomiting

- Weight loss and dehydration

- Mucus or blood in the stool

 Typically, viral gastroenteritis lasts a few days and goes away by itself.
More serious, dangerous and persistent are bacterial and parasitic stomach flu, which are more common and known as "food poisoning" because the most common sources of infection are consumption of food and water.
Gastroenteritis is an acute infectious disease care why other people do not become infected by contact with the patient must be associated with maintaining good personal hygiene and sanitation.




Treatment of stomach flu:

Viral gastroenteritis usually do not need treatment because the body itself to deal with the problem for several days.
 The situation for bacterial gastroenteritis is a little different because disease-causing bacteria are pathogenic viruses and can cause more problems and complications. In addition, in people with weakened or compromised immune system bacteria can not be resolved in other parts of the body and even cause life-threatening infection known as "sepsis." Therefore, very often it is reasonable for a bacterial infection using an appropriate antibiotic to eliminate the risk of spreading the infection or expansion.

 Usually, the main focus is on symptomatic treatment, ie addressing and eliminating symptoms. Firstly it is anti-diarrheal medication means to limit or stop the disorder and drinking plenty of fluids to compensate for their loss due to diarrhea. For this purpose, suitable clear, salty soup because the body loses fluids also important sodium and potassium ions and their loss must be compensated. For the duration of the disorder should avoid carbonated drinks, milk and sweets because they enhance diarrhea.

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What is Metoclopramide - Side Effects

Before I start to write about what is Metoclopramide, what are its side effects, and other important information about this medicine, I would like to write a short intro of this post. Please read it!

Always Consult Your Doctor before using Metoclopramide

Stomach flu treatment with medications is not possible, however, there are some medications that can help with reducing the symptoms and by that help with your condition. Metoclopramide is one of those medications. In previous post you could read about Compazine, that's another one.

All medications are meant to help people with various illnesses, but all of them have their right dosage and frequency in taking, as well as side effects. All of them MUST BE prescribed by your doctor, or otherwise, if you use it on your own hand, if you are recommended by friend or in pharmacy, you are taking a huge risk to permanently damage your health! No medicine is a toy, and non of them should be taken without professional medical advice of your health care provider, which in addition should follow your medical condition during the usage of any medication!

Part of the information, that I am writing in this post, is taken from another authority sites, which are considered to be good source for all information about this topic. All information taken form those sites are quoted, just like in my previous post.

I have my personal opinion on treating every illness, which is not connected to usage of medication, but I must write about it, since people are using those medicines without to much knowledge about them. So these posts are more likely to be taken as warnings, and should not be taken as advises at all ! ! !

So, What is Metoclopramide and How to Use it?

If you experience stomach flu symptoms, it doesn't necessarily mean that you have stomach flu! These would, further on, means that stomach flu symptoms such are nausea, vomiting, headache could happen to each of us because of many other causes, and not only stomach flu causes. However, Metoclopramide is considered to be very good in dealing with some of those symptoms!

Nausea and vomiting as a result of the use of anti-cancer drugs, post-surgery and the result of other medical illnesses will be reduced by increasing the contractions of the upper portion of the digestive tract. It improves gastric emptying time which helps reduce the incidence of heartburn, nausea and vomiting.
Metoclopramide also helps patients with diabetic gastroparesis in diabetic patients since it increases gastric emptying. There are more uses of metoclopramide and your doctor will advise you the ideal dosage and frequency of this medication after careful assessment of your symptoms.

Your doctor is the only authoritative person who can prescribe you Metoclopramide. Before taking it, you must have a good consultation with him/her about:

• medications you already use, especially if you are suffering from some chronic disease,
• all possible health disorders you might have,
• ingredients you are allergic to,
• do you use any supplements, vitamins and natural treatments,
• if you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant
• if you are breastfeeding or planning to breastfeed

Take metoclopramide 30 minutes before meals and before going to bed at night. This helps reduce the heartburn that is common after a heavy meal.
If you missed a dose, take it as soon as you remember. Never double your dose. Space the remaining dose evenly. Remember to take your medications on time so you will be able to benefit from the therapeutic action of metoclopramide.
If you are using ODT or metoclopramide orally disintegrating tablet, remove the medication from the casing just before taking them. Place the tablet on your tongue and never swallow it, allow it to melt completely. You don’t need to follow up with water just allow the ODT to melt on its own.
If you are taking oral syrup form, use a measuring cup to take precise doses of the medication; never use a spoon or a tablespoon.
Do not overdose; high doses of metoclopramide will cause uncontrollable muscle movements of the face, eyes, lips and extremities. Never stop abruptly, allow your doctor to schedule a weaning dose for you to prevent serious side effects.
Avoid drinking alcohol when taking metoclopramide. This medication will cause dizziness and sleepiness so do not operate machinery or drive.

If you are prescribed the Metoclopramide you must storage it properly. The storage of Metoclopramide depends on the type you are using, syrup and tablets should be stored on a place with temperature between 15 and 30 degrees C. If you are using injectable Metoclopramide store it at the regular room temperature! Do not remove medication from original package, nor throw away literature, you must have it case you experience side effects! Also, do not throw away your prescription, since you need it for your prescribed dose. Do not use Metoclopramide in higher doses than it is recommended for you, since this way you can experience side effects, over dosage or damage your health permanently; also, do not use this medication for a longer than 3 months!


READ CAREFULLY! Metoclopramide Side Effects

..and think twice before you use it!

For me the most important information in this post would be the Metoclopramide side effects, which should aware you and maybe discourage you from usage of this medicine! It is maybe good to treat vomiting and nausea, but its side effects can have biggest impact on your long term health!

Like almost every other medicine, Metoclopramide too has side effects! Metoclopramide side effects are more likely to happen to people with diabetes, older people and in women, but it may happen to everyone using it. Read this carefully, and even search for more information on Metoclopramide side effects!

• Stiffening of the muscles of the face causing a mask-like appearance.
• Anxiety, hallucinations, inability to sit or stay still and restlessness.
• Inability to control balance while walking, tremors and seizures.
• Worsening of diarrhea - this medicine may help with some stomach flu symptoms, but possibly increase some other gastrointestinal disorders!
• In women, flow of menses and changes in menstrual pattern, swelling of the breasts and breast tenderness.
• Headache and sleeping disorders!
• Dizziness and tiredness, together with drowsiness ans restlessness.

Some of Metoclopramide side effects are severe and you must contact your doctor right away to prevent worsening of your health condition! You must take care about every possible changes you might experience during usage of Metoclopramide and if you become concerned about any of those changes, immediately visit your health care provider! Read more about Metoclopramide side effects here and do not hesitate to ask your doctor any question might have on your mind, it is your health question and you must take good care of it!

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Combat the Stomach Flu Symptoms with Prochlorperazine

In our previous posts we were talking about symptoms of stomach flu and how to treat is with natural herbs. You could find what to eat during the illness and what you should avoid to eat!

Always Consult Your Doctor before using Prochlorperazine

While there is no vaccine that can prevent the stomach flu, nor there is medicine which can cure you from stomach virus, there are some medicines which can help with reducing the symptoms of stomach flu.

Like every other medicines, these medicines should be prescribed by your doctor, and not some random page on google which talks about treatment of stomach flu with medications. I am personally, trying to avoid usage of any kind of drugs for each illness, and always give the first shoot to natural or home remedies. However, sometimes, it is almost impossible to treat illness without medicines.

So for all those who suffer from stomach flu symptoms and hardly stand them, there are some medications which can help with reducing and lowering the symptoms occurrence. These medicines are: Prochlorperazine, Metoclopramide and Loperamide. I am hardly write these lines, since I don't usually like to talk about drugs, but this information may be helpful and this is the reason I am writing it. However this post is not meant to be used as prescription for Prochlorperazine, it is written only in informative purpose, to inform you on what is Prochlorperazine, how to use it, and what are its side effects! Inform yourself about this medicine even if it is prescribed to you by your doctor, because you might experience Prochlorperazine side effects.

Combat the Stomach Flu Symptoms with Prochlorperazine

Main purpose of Prochlorperazine is to combat with severe and frequent vomiting and nausea! 

Oral prochlorperazine is a medication that is used for treatment of severe nausea and vomiting as a result of various medical conditions and during the treatment of anti-cancer drugs, medication for migraine and post-operative conditions. Prochlorperazine works by directly affecting the area of the brain that is responsible for keeping the balance of natural chemicals or neurotransmitters resulting to a decreased urge to vomit. Prochlorperazine may also be used to treat several disorders of the neurologic system like schizophrenia and may also be effective in the treatment of chronic stress and anxiety.
Prochlorperazine is a generic name and one of the brand names of prochlorperazine is Compazine. Compazine is available in oral, intravenous form, intramuscular and rectal (suppository) form.

Treatment of stomach flu symptoms with Prochlorperazine is only feasible under the constant surveillance of your doctor who prescribed this kind of treatment; you should constantly inform your doctor about your condition! It is very important to keep in touch with your doctor and inform him / her if you notice any Prochlorperazine side effects, allergic reaction or even if your symptoms get worst!

Before Taking Prochlorperazine!

You need to have a thorough discussion with your doctor about what you are allergic to, to determine whether these compounds have in Prochlorperazine; do you use any other medication for other chronic illnesses; do you use any supplements, vitamins and natural treatments which can be bad in combination with Prochlorperazine or affect its effects. If you are breast-feeding or pregnant you should not use this medicine!

How to Use Prochlorperazine?

Your doctor should give you some inputs on how to use this medicine, listen very carefully and even note if you can't remember everything he say! Take notice and stick to them!

Take the pills with or without food. There are no special diets while you are taking the medication.
Take your medication on time. If you missed a dose, take the dose as soon as you remember. Never double your dose to make up for the missed one. If it is near the time for your next dose, skip the missed one and maintain your schedule. Remember to avoid missing your dose since you will reduce the effect.
Avoid drinking alcoholic beverages; prochlorperazine will make you dizzy and taking alcohol will only make your dizziness and the feeling of light-headedness worse.
Avoid direct sun exposure; wear sunscreen with the highest SPF level and use long-sleeved shirts and hats to protect yourself.
Avoid dehydration by taking more fluids that usual. Limit strenuous activity and always have someone with you to help you when you feel dizzy.
Stopping the medication abruptly can cause nausea, vomiting, dizziness and jittery feeling. Your doctor will advise you how to wean yourself from Compazine to reduce these unusual side effects.

If you are prescribed the Prochlorperazine you must storage it properly. The proper way is to place it in an room with temperature between 59 to 86 F degrees. Do not leave it in room or place where is high moisture, and do not expose it to the sunlight or leave it on a place where sunlight can reach! 

Prochlorperazine Side Effects!

For me the most important information in this post would be the Prochlorperazine side effects, which should aware you and maybe discourage you from usage of this medicine! It is maybe good to treat vomiting and nausea, but its side effects can have biggest impact on your long term health! 

On a long term, in men it can cause decreased libido and importance, in women breast swelling and weight gain. All together it can cause sleeping problems, headache, blurred vision, dizziness, confusion, anxiety! In some cases an urge medical intervention is required!

Also you must take care not to take more of this medicine than it is prescribed by doctor, if you take more than it is prescribed to you, immediate contact your local poison control center or your health care provider!

Talk to your doctor and keep him informed on your condition. Be aware of Prochlorperazine Side Effects, watch how your body react on it! Never use this medicine without your doctors prescription!!!

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Stomach Flu - New Year's Eve at Home

Happy New Year!

I wish you all the best, I wish you all the best, most of all I wish you a good health.

Stomach Flu - New Year's Eve at Home

The New Year's Eve is behind us, more or less we all were party, and I hope you had a great time with your friends. I was on salsa party, and it was great. But this is not a topic of my blog, and I don't want to go of topic.

I know there were a lot of people with stomach flu, who spent their Eve in a toilet, experiencing symptoms, I hope you'll get better soon.

Also I know there were a lot of people who were experiencing mild stomach flu symptoms, or not fully healed, who went party.

This is the reason of writing this post. This people probably were on a significant percent of parties all around the globe. If you came back from party with symptoms, it doesn't have to mean that you took to much buzz, it can be because of someone spread a virus on you. If so, you have entered in 2013th with great job.

Since kissing is just a regular thing in the New Year's Eve, you may get it that way, or maybe you could get it from food, or buzz itself. However, this is not the moment to speak about how you got it, I should write a post about this on 31. December, and not today. But for all those who entered in a new year with stomach flu, here is an recommendation on how to deal with it.


Things you should avoid while you experience symptoms are:

• Alcohol
• Aspirin
• Caffeine
• Citrus products
• Dairy products
• Ibuprofen
• Fatty, greasy and/or fried foods
• Raw fruits and vegetables

Here is a recommendation based on clear liquid diet:

• Apple or cranberry juice
• Clear bouillon
• Decaf tea
• Fruit ice
• Fruit punch
• Gatorade
• Ginger
• Jello
• Popsicles
• Salt

The following is the full liquid diet:

• Bland soups
• Broth
• Cocoa
• Cinnamon
• Cream of wheat or rice cereals
• Farina
• Honey
• Nutmeg
• Sherbets
• Strained fruit nectar
• Vanilla or other extracts
• Vegetable juices

Try to stick to this recommendation and you should get better very soon.
Also you can read my previous articles "Stomach Flu - What to Eat!?" and "Stomach Flu - Treatment With Ginger" where you can find more valuable information regarding the nutrition during this illness.

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Stomach Flu - Treatment With Ginger

Treating Stomach Flu Symptoms With Ginger

I did some research on how to treat stomach flu with home remedies, and I found that many people talk about healing effects of ginger, so I decided to collect some tips in this post.

Today I feel much better and stomach flu symptoms are repeating rarer and rarer. However, I still suffer from frequent diarrhea and for me it looks like it's an never-ending nightmare.

Many people on the web talks about miraculous effects of ginger in treating stomach flu symptoms and here are several tips I had collected with different approaches in using it.

1. You can clean the ginger and suck the juice from it and then swallow, after that take very few small bites of meat. These may have a disgusting taste and can be very hard to swallow, but according to people who did it and their mitigation of symptoms, you should try it.
2. If you think that previous method is to disgusting, you have my vote. you can go to local pharmacy shop, buy some empty capsules fill them with grated ginger and make your own ginger pills which are much easier to be swallowed since they doesn't leave any awful taste in your mouth.
3. Make a ginger bug: this is one more way but it looks to ambitious from my point of view and I think need much more effort to get done, but can help a lot since this is even more probiotics. Easily find this method by searching for it on google. 

If try any of these methods, please leave your feedback in comment section. I will try with ginger pills and will post back my experience.

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What is Stomach Flu? - Basic Information

What is stomach flu?

With no particular virus that affects digestive system, stomach flu got its name to describe a state of digestive system under attack of any viral illness, and not to be classified as influenza. Now, you can make conclusion that this is, actually, an stomach infection caused by a virus; an inflammation of the gastro intestinal tract due to a viruses or in some cases bacteria or parasites.

What this virus do is, not just affecting the stomach, than it attacks the small intestine too and makes a person affected with the virus suffer from many well known symptoms.

As any other illness, stomach flu also has many names; so you can hear different phrases such are:
-stomach virus,
-gastroenteritis or a
-gastric flu,
but don't get confused with these, they all refer to the same sickness.

What are potential carriers?

We already mention that stomach flu is in most cases caused viral and bacterial, but the question is how this get in your body and organs!? 

Well the answer is really simple, those viruses, bacteria, parasites and toxins are usually brought by contaminated food or water. In some other cases, which are not rare at all, especially nowadays, diets, food allergies and medications can lead to gastroenteritis.

I would especially like to highlight several other ways of getting stomach flu, and would like you to consider it with special attention. Beside those factors above, you should be especially aware that gastroenteritis may be brought to your body from such a bizarre situations as is shaking hands with infected person and consuming food without previous washing hands; kisses with infected persons are even more dangerous since your respiratory organs are the front doors for viruses, not to mention exchange of fluids; and on the and I think you already get it yourself, but let's mention it too, sharing food and utensils with infected person, is potentially more dangerous than anything above.
Be aware that if your family members are sick, you should not get to close to them as you can get sick too.

What causes stomach flu?

There are many viruses and bacteria's which cause gastric flu. At this moment we will just count them, because we will take a special attention on all of them one by one in future posts.

Viral enemies are named:

• Adenoviru, 
• Astroviruss, 
• Norovirus, 
• Rotavirus and
• Sapovirus.

Bacterial enemies are named:

• Aeromonas,
• Bbacillus,
• Listeria,
• Plesiomonas,
• Salmonella, 
• Shigella,
• Staphylococcus,
• Vibrio and
• Yersinia.

Parasitic enemies are named:

• Cryptosporidium,
• Entamoeba and
• Giardia. 

In some other cases food allergies, antibiotics, medication and  toxins, can cause gastroenteritis and we will mention them in future posts as well.

The time of incubation of virus, bacteria or parasite can take much longer before any gastroenteritis symptoms occur. The person become a patient once he or she get transferred infections from infected person our other source. Depending on the immune system, the infection will spread and soon the symptoms will appear. That  is the point when all trouble begins.

What are stomach flu symptoms?

When symptoms of stomach flu suddenly appear, this means that causer has done the job, and person begin to suffer from various symptoms. Well, these symptoms are so strong that they are considered as illness itself. Since all symptoms are classified as specific disease, we will pay more attention on each one of them and write more about them in future posts. Here we will just count them as well and letter on we will decompose each problem individually.

So the most common stomach flu symptoms are:

• appetite loss
• diarrhea,
• fatigue
• mild fever,
• muscle aches
• nausea,
• stomach cramps and chills,
• vomiting.

As you can see, more or less, all these symptoms are illnesses itself. Considered like that, they all can be triggered because of some other reasons.
Having this in mind, infected person and his or hers doctor must go through the series of laboratory tests to confirm if stomach flu is in case before proceeding to treatment.

Stomach flu treatment

Even if we all would be the most happiest with prescribed medication, in most cases medications are out of use. The most important factor in fight with stomach flu is immune system. While body can dehydrate because of vomiting, it is important to take water, but only in small doses. No solid food should not be used while the symptoms are in the worst phases. When patients symptoms improve, the patient can eat soft bland food. More about diet I will write in future articles.


As you can see, this is an very serious illness and you should never treat it yourself. Respect your doctors profession, they has the best words to prescribe us in such a bed health condition.

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Welcome To My Stomach Flu Diary

Hi dear visitor, first of all, I have to thank you for visiting My Stomach Flu Diary blog.

Being on this blog is not as good as I would like it to be, at least because you are not brought here by any hobbies neither entertaining reason, however, being on this blog can make you feel better in the way you realize you are not alone with your problem. In the matter of fact, this is the main reason why I'm here and why I'm blogging about stomach flu - no one should suffer alone in any disease.

I am writing these lines for myself, I am writing them to remind me on my struggle, but I am writing them for you too, to realize that your suffering is not lonely. We are both sufferers of  the same illness and we are able to motivate itch other by sharing our individual experiences and the ways we fight back.

The purpose of sentences between  the lines of this blog is to make you feel better and help get improvement in your health condition. Furthermore, I will do my best to inform you with all present information on our illness without any hesitation.

Between the lines of my diary you're be able to find all information that are closely related to stomach flu. If you are not familiar with these illness I will make sure to give you wright inputs on what is stomach flu, gastric flu, gastroenteritis, what cause them, what are symptoms and treatment. Also I'll provide you with info about medications used to treat it, and their side effects.

Before you proceed with reading my blog, please take good care that you SHOULD NOT do anything on your own hand to treat the stomach flu. Me and you, we are just the same persons with the same illness, except that I am gathering the information about it and making them public, and you are reading them. 

My words SHOULD NOT be used instead of your medical health provider professional advice based on your individual state of the disease. 

Please if you are experiencing these problems, make sure to visit your doctor as soon as possible! This blog is only for informative purpose and should not be used in any other way.

Once again thank you for your visit. I wish you all I wish to myself, get health and keep health.
Think about yourself before you get any disease, the prevention is far now the best treatment, the prevention supported by discipline.

Cheers, Alannia.

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