Diarrhea is one of the most common problems for adults and children alike. Diarrhea, especially in children, may be caused by bacterial infections, parasites, food poisoning, flu, intestinal influenza, or allergies from certain foods, especially milk. In adults, diarrhea - in addition to what we have mentioned in children - may appear as a side-effect for certain medications. In most cases, diarrhea is associated with irritable bowel syndrome.
Diarrhea is often nothing more than a defensive process in which the body expels toxic substances or undesirable objects outside it. If diarrhea continues for more than two weeks, it is known as chronic diarrhea and requires medical intervention.
Treating Diarrhea using home remedies is the best and safest solution and it gives excellent results in all cases. In this article, we review with you two types of diets that are commonly prescribed by doctors to treat diarrhea and rebalance the body.
BRAT and BRATTY: The best two diets help in the treatment of diarrhea.
These diets include a diet system that completely eliminates diarrhea and prevents dehydration. For the first diet BRAT, different types of foods are respectively:
Banana - Rice (usually brown rice) - Apple mashed Applesauce - Toast bread.
The second diet, BRATTY, includes the same types of food, as well as two other types:
Banana - Rice (usually brown rice) - Apple mashed Applesauce - Toast bread – Tea – Yogurt.
Most doctors prescribe diarrheal patients to follow a diet containing only these foods until complete disappearance of symptoms of diarrhea. These two diets help to compensate for a loss of body fluids before the patient is exposed to drought or stress and weakness.
Many doctors describe the second diet as a condition for diarrhea in children. Active yeast in yogurt restores the activity of beneficial bacteria in the intestine after the use of antibiotics or when the stomach is infected with diarrhea viruses.
Green tea is an excellent option for children with diarrhea. For adults, green tea is considered to be low in caffeine and can be taken directly without caffeine.
The rice described in this diet should be brown rice and not white because brown is rich in dietary fiber, which reduces the severity of diarrhea.
As for toast, it is preferable to be prepared with whole wheat to increase fiber. It should be taken without adding jam or cheese to it or can be dipped or eaten with mashed apple sauce, which is one of the allowed food in this diet.
Peeled apples are rich in pectin, which helps to reduce diarrhea naturally. In contrast to mashed apples, apple juice contains much less pectin and may increase diarrhea, like other fruit juices, which should not be consumed during the period of diarrhea.
One of the disadvantages of the first diet is the low protein content of BRAT, which has been provided in BRATTY. Since artificial sweeteners may increase diarrhea, yogurt, which is low in sugar is an ideal alternative. Make sure that yogurt contains active yeast so that it helps in eliminating digestion problems.
In general, a few days of BRATTY or BRAT diet will ensure healing of diarrhea, and we wish you all good health and wellness.
