Imodium

[squarebear]

My apologies if you are having your lunch...

For the last 2 days, I have pretty much been chained to the loo passing what can only bedescribed as "rusty water". I assume I have some kind of tummy bug.
My wife suggests using Imodium which should calm it down but my way of thinking is that my body is trying to expel something and so I should try to stop it from doing that.

Who is right?

[mccfluff]

*puts down sandwich*

i don;t know the answer but drink plenty of fluids. re-hydration sachets are good.

[rowanwitch]

I'd leave the imodium stick with rehydration as fluff suggests

[squarebear]

lol sorry mccfluff

I bought myself a bottle of Lucozade and was surprised to read on the label that it should only be drunk if you are healthy. That has changed since my youth when it was treated almost like medicine. Now it seems to have been rebranded as one of those energy drinks like Red Bull.

I must be getting old.

[Prudie]

I tend to agree with you that Immodium will just keep in the bug that the body is trying to expel - this theory may be a load of crap! I'd take it if I had to go out somewhere but whenever I've taken Immodium I haven't needed the bathroom for that again for a week.

[237SJ]

I`d just use Dioralyte for now. That has been shown to actually help stop the diahrroea as well as rehydrating. Imodium (loperamide) works by effectively paralising the bowel but if you`re only passing water, I`m not sure there is a lot of point. Just my opinion. I`d probably resort to the Imodium if it goes on for several days though.

[squarebear]

Sorry, in my orignal post I meant to say *shouldn't* try to stop it.

Thanks for your advice all. I'll stick with drinking water until it sorts itself out. It's a handy way of losing weight but i don't recommend it.

[EcclesCake]

I'm firmly in the 'better out than in' camp. Dioralyte is all I would take, but not the pineapple flavoured one, bleurgh!

[Sqad]

Well...the choice is yours....sit on the loo for another 2 days or take Imodium.

Of course rehydration and restoration of electrolytes is important.

[squarebear]

Thanks Sqad but would I be doing more harm than good by keeping this bug in my body instead of trying to get rid of it?

[tamborine]

Methinks your wife's right. I take imodium when necessary, starve myself for 24hrs & only drink cooled boiled water; (so's not to feed germs).

[Sqad]

squarebear....do you really think that all that diarhoea is draing all the bugs?
The diarhoea is the body response to the presence of the bugs which will continue until the body kills the bugs or antibiotics do the trick.

You can.t just keep losing fluid.

In answer to your question...just think......would I give advice which was harmful.

[rowanwitch]

chances are the bug has already gone if you have no other symptoms try some yakult and see what happens

[jake-the-peg]

I think you're crazy

You're body is not some sort of all knowing natural physician it often screws up and can kill you when it does so - People die of bird flu when their bodies over react to the infection, Cancer obviously and I'm sure there are many others.

I had such a bad bout of what you've got once in Cuba - anything I drank was right out in less than 2 minutes and I was dehydrating rapidly. I was out 2 hour drive from any major town and without the immodium instants my wife had I'd have been in hospital if I was lucky.

If you're anywhere near as bad you'll want to get some immodium into yourself so you can get rehydrated properly


BTW - people make very poor decisions when they're dehydrated

[squarebear]

Thanks Sqad, I appreciate your advice.

Rownwitch - I never really saw the point of those yoghurt drinks with bacteria. Surely once it hits your stomach acid, that would kill any of these friendly bacteria off?

[tamborine]

sqads right, take the meds.

how's wife in NY sqad ?

[squarebear]

Thanks Jake, I might try some and see how it goes.

[Sqad]

tambo.......UK actually....she came back this morning :~{

[rowanwitch]

A dietitian friend recommends them after a long or nasty bout of diarrhoea and I must admit I think things calm down a lot quicker afterwards

[tamborine]

phew - she was lucky :)

[squarebear]

Thanks RW. I might give that a go as well in that case.